i know this is low quality bait but it's still 8 minutes until wow comes back up so > >burn heretics > >burn "witches" this was secular kings and lords and peasants who did these things. the inquisition put a stop to it > >genocide natives no such thing was perpetrated by the church or any religious authorities. most natives in north america died to disease brought by sea mammals and pirates prior to colonization > >tax the poor what? > >suppress science the church founded the first universities in europe and did everything it could to preserve knowledge from the empire. every important scientific discovery was discovered by catholics > >enforce orthodoxy yeah good, that's its job > >restrict education see above > >force conversions against muslims who had done the same, and jews who had betrayed christiandom to the muslims > >oppose women's rights killing babies isn't a right > >seize land native americans were too primitive to understand the concept of property, which is why they had no civilization. nothing was "seized", it was developed and made useful > >control monarchies the church is the successor to the roman state religion. the emperor was the pontifex maximus, a title that passed on to the bishop of rome and from which the privilege of crowning kings originates > >promote crusades in retaliation to muslims who had conquered and enslaved christians > >deny bible to common people the common people were illiterate, no one denied them anything god i hope wow is up soon
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