Pope: “No religion is immune from its own fundamentalism,” and fundamentalists “kill, destroy and defame” [picture, video], Video]

Pope Francis has said that no religion is safe from fundamentalism. Extreme religious views threaten the religion, but also those who do not share those views. Witness te extremes   the Inquisition  caused: murder, torture–all in the name of religious purity.

Tnen came the forcible conversion or murder of Native Americans in the Americas–all with the Church’s blessing and support.  Millions of North ad South  Americans died some forcibly converted, others incarcerated n so called Indian schools, where they were foribly striped of their language and culture, often tortured and murdered.  

Religion gives humans the impression that their human institutions speak for God and that they are justified in what they do becaus they’re “doing God’s work”  Some of the worse atrocities in history have been perpertrated in the name of religion.

(ANSA) – Vatican City, September 14 – Pope Francis warned Monday that no religion could consider itself safe from fundamentalist elements. “No religion is immune from its own fundamentalism, every confession has a group of fundamentalists, whose job is to destroy in the name of an idea, not reality,” Francis told Buenos Aires FM Mileniium 106.7, an Argentine protestant radio station. “Fundamentalists distance God from the company of His people, they transform him into an ideology. In the name of this ideology, they kill, destroy and defame”.   source

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