Quote Originally Posted by The Wizard View Post
What do (theo-)logical acrobatics have to do with anything at the business end of a gun barrel? And again, the same can be said of any ideology, with the possible exception of Nazism.

EDIT: As for slavery, hoho. Bad choice: it wasn't very long before it was sanctioned and theologically defended by churches all over.
Slavery is not a bad example. It had to be "sanctioned" with reference to Blacks because it was considered offensive to God in general. That is why Blacks were defined as sub-hman, so that they could be possessed along with any other beast. On the other hand, slavery was absoultely fine by anyone else's God at the time.

Ultimately, however, Blacks were domonstrated not to be significantly different and the theological acrobatics fell mid-backflip; with orthodox, not heretical, Christians often being the ones to prove the point.

Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
You stated that christianity was a "poor choice" for social control. Franco proves that wrong.

Along with a ton of other murdering dictators, most of them royals.... And djeezez, the catholic Church has maintained strong social control ever since it was founded.
France used France to control people. Anyway, it was the Catholic King that restored democracy. So, obviously monarchies and religion are a good thing, right?