Not a particularly accurate take on history. The world was a much more brutal place before the birth of Christ and the establishment of the Church was the start of a kinder world.
Much of the bloodshed the Church was involved in was in the defense of Christianity and Western civilization against the aggressive and atrocity driven attacks by the Islamic world and the even more brutal and genocidal attacks by the Mongol Khans.
But, in fairness to the authors, this piece of misleading garbage historical analysis was written in 1910 so it pre dated and missed out on 20th century heyday of mass murder and genocide most of which was not just anti christian, anti clerical and anti church - it was atheistic and antagonistic to religion of any type by basic nature.
Think Atheistic Communism in Russia, China, Vietnam, Spain, Cambodia, Cuba , Africa, South and Central America and many other countries. They racked up a body count of over 120 million people - many of whom were tortured to death.
And of course we have Atheistic Fascism in Germany and Japan that ran up a body count in the tens of millions.
And it is beyond dispute that the Catholic Church put a stop to brutal execution of millions of people by the Aztecs in South and Central America and converted the New World to a much more civilized existence.
——>But, in fairness to the authors, this piece of misleading garbage historical analysis was written in 1910 so it pre dated and missed out on 20th century heyday of mass murder and genocide most of which was not just anti christian, anti clerical and anti church - it was atheistic and antagonistic to religion of any type by basic nature.
My focus is bible prophecy and the 1260 YEARS of Papal persecution. Torture, murder, war, death, purposeful neglect, abuse, etc... 200+ million killed? Probably even more. The article does a good job of bringing this out.