{"id":2427,"date":"2012-01-31T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/christophobia-rhetoric-politics-as-a-religion.html"},"modified":"2012-01-31T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:30:00","slug":"christophobia-rhetoric-politics-as-a-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/christophobia-rhetoric-politics-as-a-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"“Christophobia” Rhetoric: Politics as a Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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by\u00a0Keith Allen Lehman<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/span><\/span>Suzanne Fields\u00a0writes in\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Turning Swords in Bombs<\/a>, <\/i>\u201c<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span>Christians who sought domination, on the other hand, never invoked the teachings of Christ to justify violence,\u201d <\/i><\/span>is misleading, and not entirely correct. Examples would be the series of\u00a0Crusade<\/i>\u00a0expeditions, other than the first one. Violence was seen in the New World, in the name of the Church by Conquistadors and\u00a0Jesuit<\/a>\u00a0monks and priests<\/a>. Christians in the medieval period burned books \u2014 and people. The\u00a0Inquisition<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>tortured confessions from people, and if that was not enough, they either hanged them or burned at the stake. Of course, like\u00a0violence begets violence<\/i><\/a>, there is no justification for what atrocities are committed in the name of religion and war being declared against any nation, entity, or individual that criticizes or does not support Islamic ideology.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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by\u00a0Keith Allen Lehman Suzanne Fields\u00a0writes in\u00a0Turning Swords in Bombs, \u201cChristians who sought domination, on the other hand, never invoked the teachings of Christ to justify violence,\u201d is misleading, and not entirely correct. Examples would be the series of\u00a0Crusade\u00a0expeditions, other than the first one. Violence was seen in the New World, in the name of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n"Christophobia" Rhetoric: Politics as a Religion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"by Keith Allen LehmanSuzanne Fields writes in Turning Swords in Bombs, "Christians who sought domination, on the other hand, never invoked\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/christophobia-rhetoric-politics-as-a-religion.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Christophobia" Rhetoric: Politics as a Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by Keith Allen LehmanSuzanne Fields writes in Turning Swords in Bombs, "Christians who sought domination, on the other hand, never invoked\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/christophobia-rhetoric-politics-as-a-religion.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rhetoric Race and Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-31T12:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andre E. 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