Great Moments In Christian History
A Christian Timeline
0 - Jesus was born
Circa 35 - Jesus was crucified, only to be resurrected 3 days later.
1231 - The Inquisition: In response to suspected heresy, Inquistitors would question, torture and even burn suspects at the stakes in attempt to convert them. Some countries such as England, Germany and Italy opted to ignore suspected heretics rather than torture and kill them in the name of God.
1481-1517 - The Spanish Inquisition: 13,000 suspected heretics burned alive, 17,000 subjected to various torture such as: The Rack and setting various body parts on fire in the name of the Lord.
1500s- 1600s - Witch hunts in the British Isles & Europe: Suspected witches and sorcerers were tortured by floggings, iron gauntlets, amputating women's breasts, being bitten by swarms of rats, and even having the lower leg crushed until they confessed, then they were put to death, once again, in the name of the Lord.
1692 - The Salem Witchcraft Trials: 24 accused witches were killed in the name of the Lord
1935-1945 - Adolf Hitler, doing "the Lord's Work" killed 11,000,000 people, 6,000,000 Jews, in order to make a "master race"
1989 - The Christian Coalition founded by Pat Robertson to become in his words "The most powerful Organization in the world"
1989 - Jim Bakker, convicted for conspiracy, wire and mail fraud and sentenced to 45 years. Not to mention his extramarital affair with his secretary.
1990 - Charles and Shelby Roberts kidnapped an 8 year old Shamema Honzagool Sloan, who is currently captive at Jerry Falwell's baptist church in Virginia. She is currently not allowed outside visitors. (See the story)
1994-1996 - The Southern Baptists Boycott Disney for reasons like not discriminating against homosexuals, for not displaying enough Christianity in their movies and many more things. (See the list here)
1999 - Jerry Falwell announces that Tinky-Winky, from a children's show "The Teletubbies" is sending out homosexual signals to todays youth. Later on he admits he never saw the show and was working on a he said she said source.
1990s - Abortion clinics bombed for the "slaughtering of God's children" by Chrisitan activists.