[WorkingClassFilth]

"Christian monks and pilgrims used to whip themselves to "mortify the flesh." And that was just a few hundred years ago. No contradiction."

Technically, you could smear Christian theology with such loose and egregious examples, but I think you're probably made of better stuff than all of those fellow atheists that slaughtered 150 million people over the last few decades.

[MineralMan]

"Technically, you could smear Christian theology with such loose and egregious examples"

Describing a practice of some Christians 500 years ago is not smearing Christian theology. That some Christians did such things is merely a comparison with similar things done by followers of other religions. It is not a value judgment of either.

I am not smearing Christianity. I am merely describing one aspect of it in history.