Ah, the hypocrisy of the powerful. The Catholic Church, with its grandeur and its pomp, has a history of blood on its hands. Do you know what happened in the town of Béziers, France, in 1209? The Church, in its infinite wisdom, decided to purge the town of heretics. And what did they do? They burned the entire town to the ground, with 5000 innocent people inside. Men, women, children… all because they were deemed ‘impure’.

And what was the justification for this atrocity? ‘God will save the innocent.’ Ah, the convenience of divine intervention. It’s always the same, isn’t it? The powerful use God as an excuse to justify their cruelty, their greed, their lust for power. And the innocent suffer, burned alive in the name of salvation.
But I ask you, where was God when the flames were consuming those 5000 souls? Where was He when the screams of the burning echoed through the streets? No, my friends, God was nowhere to be found. It was human cruelty, human hatred, that did that. And it’s the same cruelty, the same hatred, that we see today, cloaked in the same false piety.
The Church may have forgotten its past, but I haven’t. Let’s all make sure that the world remembers, too.
Do we continue to dwell on the past or try to make the present more inhabitable for others?🤔 Even in recent times, many atrocities worse than the one you stated here still exists.
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Greed, justified by religion has been the root of most of the misery we see today. We should dwell, but rather dissect the past, to make a better future.
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