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In reply to the discussion: Ebola outbreak: Health team 'found dead' in Guinea [View all]uppityperson
(116,005 posts)32. Thousands were murdered like this in Rwanda, assisted by Catholic & Protestant churches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Rwanda
Timothy Longman has provided the most detailed discussion of the role of religion in the Rwandan genocide in Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda, published in 2010.[7] Longman argues that both Catholic and Protestant churches helped to make the genocide possible by giving moral sanction to the killing. Churches had longed played ethnic politics themselves, favoring the Tutsi during the colonial period then switching allegiance to the Hutu after 1959, sending a message that ethnic discrimination was consistent with church teaching. The church leaders had also long had close ties with the political leaders, and after the genocide began, the church leaders called on the population to support the new interim government, the very government supporting the genocide.
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Smart. Just like those geniuses who broke into a quarantine center and stole
TwilightGardener
Sep 2014
#1
This is fucking insane: stoned, slit throats, and thrown in the latrine
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2014
#10
Thousands were murdered like this in Rwanda, assisted by Catholic & Protestant churches.
uppityperson
Sep 2014
#32
MURDERED...Eight dead in attack on Ebola team in Guinea. ‘Killed in cold blood.
undeterred
Sep 2014
#15
Are you seriously saying nasty acts like this are a good reason to avoid an entire continent?
uppityperson
Sep 2014
#33