@butitoy: i mentioned the crusades to underline the point that the views taught by the catholic church are not always right. i am making a historical point (much like you are making a hysterical one
)
regarding hitler's purge of the jews, read up on hitler and christianity. you'll get it. also, i think pope jhn paul II issued an apology about this, decades after the church just stood aside and allowed the mass murder of thousands of people. here's a
link for you.
if i were jesus, this kind of stuff would not have had to happen. i'd have destroyed the roman catholic church the day it was created. jesus spent his life preaching about faith being a personal relationship between man and god and the roman catholic church took that away and made it between a person, the church, then god.
if the teachings of jesus had not been abducted and warped by the church, people like you butitoy would have to think for yourself and be responsible for your faith. you wouldn't count yourself saved just because you lined up in a big building, said the required prayers, knelt the required number of times and paid the required tithes.
you would actually have to bear the burdens of your fellow man, give him the compassion you would reserve for your kids and yourself and you would actually have to act every second knowing that any mistake you make is a mistake you are accountable for not to church or to god but to yourself. you'd know that a sin can't be forgiven just by telling some church-appointed person about it in secret, that you can't buy your way to heaven by donating to the church, that you can't cop out of the burden of sin because the first one you sin against is yourself.
i don't have this person's personal number but if i did, i wouldn't dare him with what you are daring him. you know why? because you don't get it. you don't get what his work was about. you didn't even take the time to research what the display was all about, what theme he was working under. all you do is post here, all hell and brimstone thinking you are winning one for god. you are not. you are winning one for the church.
also, while the church does not specifically teach killing, it does its fair share of it.