Ellerbe - The Dark Side Of Christian History (1995)

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This is Helen Ellerbe's shocking book The Dark Side of Christian History (1995) which exposes the often forgotten history of the horriffic religious intolerance of the early Christian Church which has over a period of nearly two millennia oppressed and brutalized millions of individuals deemed as "heretics" and "witches". Meticulously researched and courageously written it examines the Church's devastating impact upon human freedom, dignity and spirituality. Written for the lay reader, this controversial book is especially relevant today as the religious right is attempting to assert greater influence in American politics and society. The Dark Side of Christian History presents a compelling argument that the Church's desire to control and contain spiritually motivated its persecution of heretics, its burning of libraries, the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the witch-hunts. This dark Christianity has left a legacy, a world view, which permeates every aspect of Western society. It is a legacy which fosters sexism, racism, the intolerance of difference and the desecration of the natural environment. If you want to know what the world would be like living under a theocracy without traveling to an Islamic country, this book will be more than you want to know. The illustrations alone make this book worth a close look. One 19th century illustration of churchmen torturing a suspected witch is something noone shall never get out of his mind. And as the author points out, in hunting witches it was always the keenest of sexual pleasures for witch hunters to subject their victims to the cruelest sexual humiliation and a painful death involving sexual torture - all in Jesus's name offcourse. Without making broad and unsubstantiated claims, Ellerbe traces the history of Christianity citing all of the lesser known, forgotten, or intentionally down-played moments of Christian violence, oppression, and hypocrisy. Recommended reading for those that are particularly interested in religion, or perhaps to those that are compelled to understand the turbulent history of Christianity from its birth to the modern day without bias or preconception. 220 pages, many pictures. A must read for everyone.

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