'Fundamentalist' Christianity is to blame for crime in America - because the Bible teaches violence and vengeance, claims new book by professor of Criminology
Christianity is to blame for America's high crime rates because its followers believe that the Bible gives God's 'blessing' to violence, a controversial new book claims.
The book, by a professor of criminology, claims that at its core Christian ideology is close to Fascism and is 'criminogenic', meaning that it actually causes crime.
Fundamentalist Christian ideology has been the inspiration for terrorism and figures like radio host Rush Limbaugh are damaging America by helping 'promote vengeance seeking'.
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Christianity is to blame for America's high crime rates because its followers believe that the Bible gives God's 'blessing' to violence, a controversial new book claims.
The book, by a professor of criminology, claims that at its core Christian ideology is close to Fascism and is 'criminogenic', meaning that it actually causes crime.
Fundamentalist Christian ideology has been the inspiration for terrorism and figures like radio host Rush Limbaugh are damaging America by helping 'promote vengeance seeking'.
more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z4142eDDxw
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"