You all know the technique of the Big Lie, I hope. Here's an example from a recent post:
that is exactly the reasoning the RCC used to slaughter millions of Christians during the dark ages. (About 50 million as it turns out).
Shall we do a little math?
The Black Plague killed about 25 million, which was 1/3 of the population of Europe in the mid-1300s. What was the population of Europe 500 years earlier (roughly the middle of the Dark Ages)? Let's say it was 1/2 of the 1300's figure, or 37 million people. Now we're told that during the Dark Ages alone the "RCC" killed about 50 million "as it turns out." Twice the number killed, half the population. It's a wonder there are any Europeans left at all.
The Big Lie. And some people fall all over themselves in their anxiousness to believe it.
"A good deal of Protestantism is little more than anti-Catholicism."
Reinhold Niehbuhr, 1959
that is exactly the reasoning the RCC used to slaughter millions of Christians during the dark ages. (About 50 million as it turns out).
Shall we do a little math?
The Black Plague killed about 25 million, which was 1/3 of the population of Europe in the mid-1300s. What was the population of Europe 500 years earlier (roughly the middle of the Dark Ages)? Let's say it was 1/2 of the 1300's figure, or 37 million people. Now we're told that during the Dark Ages alone the "RCC" killed about 50 million "as it turns out." Twice the number killed, half the population. It's a wonder there are any Europeans left at all.
The Big Lie. And some people fall all over themselves in their anxiousness to believe it.
"A good deal of Protestantism is little more than anti-Catholicism."
Reinhold Niehbuhr, 1959