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Your “example” of institutional violence isn’t one. The JWs weren’t killing Catholics or visa versa on an INSTITUTIONAL level. Sorry, but your point is rubbish.

Go back and re-read my statement and see if you can figure out what the true point is, in regards to the JW's in that line and get back to me.

“Go back and re-read my statement and see if you can figure out what the true point is...”

You made an assertion about Christians of 100 and 30 years ago and then failed to provide factual evidence to support it. (Re: post #18) All your examples are 500 to 1000 years old, pre-reformation, not 100 years or 30 years like you first asserted - except the KKK (!!!!). Using the KKK as an example of institutional Christian violence is so silly on the face of it that you beclown yourself by even using that as an example.

You are playing an old, familiar game of making false statements and then providing weak or non-germane examples. That may work with other liberals or those who don’t know their history, but not with many here on FR.

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
-—Mark Twain

I'm going to answer this...just to be helpful.

[Me] During the late 1930s and the 1940s, Jehovah's Witnesses attacked the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian denominations so vigorously that many states and municipalities passed laws against their inflammatory preaching.

[You] Your “example” of institutional violence isn’t one. The JWs weren’t killing Catholics or visa versa on an INSTITUTIONAL level. Sorry, but your point is rubbish.

The example I gave has little to do with the JWs. It's about the suppression of the 1rst amendment by those sympathetic to those being targeted by the JWs. Much like Islamic governments do the critics of Islam.

*sigh