Another Question For Christians

[Girchuck]

An ideology can be used as a tool to motivate a bunch of people to kill another bunch of people. Your religion is not immune from being used as a tool of powerhungry people who want to have even more power. Why are there so very few Christian theocracies today, while 600 years ago they were commonplace? Maybe people in christian nations were tired of killing each other because of small theological differences, and agreed that the best chance of avoiding this was to let the secular government resolve people's differences of religious opinion or even let them to "agree to disagree." They tried it in Netherland and Switzerland, and it worked great, so the idea spread. Fortunately for christian religion, it was no longer able to instigate mass internecine warfare when the really powerful killing technologies became available. Thats why Stalin and Pol Pot scored a lot more than the Spanish Inquisition.