50 Million Deaths

The catholic inquisition against re-baptizers from the 2nd century Donatists to the people of England in the 15th century killed over 50 million people, mostly Christians. The Inquisition against Islam is usually meant, but most of the killing was against Churches of Christ, who rejected Catholic theology and re-baptized Catholics if they believed it was necessary. Others were slaughtered in mass, Cathars lost as many as 500,000, and Catholics rejoiced.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Once there were many sects of heretics but they have now been almost destroyed. Two of importance, however, are still to be found, the Cathars, or Patarini, and the Leonistae, or Poor Men of Lyons. Their beliefs are presented in this work.

Notice that before the removal of the Cathars, there were many sects not actually included in history.Before the Protestant reformation, before the 12th century, there were sects that the modern Catholics don't want you to know about.

I have heard estimates of 40 million killed from the 2nd century to the 9th century, so the actual number may be higher. In 1099 Catholics wiped out the entire population of Jerusalem, without notice of what religion they were killing.

Catholics tend to deflate this history saying it is exaggerated, but it is very possible. Catholics did not have to wipe out entire cities or towns, they simply had to make examples of 2 families per town over the course of 1000 years.

Kansas has 627 incorporated towns, not near as many as Europe, Asia, and Africa combined; just ten people killed per year per town over a 1000 year period would be 6.27 million killed. Imagine all the towns in Europe and Africa. Just ten per year in 627 towns over 1000 years is 6.2 million and there are ten times more towns in europe and asia and africa than Kansas. Europe alone has 800 towns over 50k population, with hundreds more under 50k. So i'm sure Catholics killed over 50 million christians over 1000 years. They had a long-held policy of stamping out opposition.

They were simply burning a few families per town to keep their population in fear. In England a burning of 31 was documented and there were other occasions.

There is some documentation of mass killing as listed above with the Cathars and Jerusalem, but most were just a group of 10 or so, 50 million is not inflated. It could be much higher.

Though Cathars had some really bad doctrinal errors, they also refuted Catholic doctrinal errors very well, as in refuting the actual body of Christ in communion (Transubstantiation) by using the Lord's prayer. So Catholics and Cathars had some equally bad errors.

The Cathars used a Greek manuscript that disagreed with the Latin Vulgate in wording, making daily bread a spiritual food vs actual. Instead of "daily bread" it read "special bread" distinguishing it from physical bread, "Jesus was the bread of life everyday, not just in a Eucharist" , was the point they made. This is very true. When Jesus said he was the bread of life he was speaking of daily and not just Sunday's eucharist. He was also speaking of eating God's word, which is our food.

Matt 4 man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

So Jesus as the Logos was God's bread. Give us this day our special bread the Cathars would pray..

Though the word "special" may not be correct, the daily bread of the Lord's prayer may include physical and spiritual. Jesus is the bread of life without ceasing, daily. Not just in the eucharist.

The Catholics attacked and murdered them for disagreeing.