Religion Kills

I was watching "The Plague" on the History Channel today, and discovered yet another way that "overly" Christian people have committed mass murder. During the Black Plague back in the 1300's these people mimicked the pain and suffering of Jesus upon themselves. Whipping themselves and such, as they walked through the towns. This was supposed to be some sort of penance since they believed that the plague was an act of God. The general public looked up to these people, but the authority believed they were getting out of hand. Authority figures didn't do anything about it for a while because too much of the public loved these people. Well these Christian zealots started blaming the plague on Jews (of course) and killed them off. They did a bunch of other harmful bullshit as well, of course. Chris' dad had a point that these people only represent a small part of society, but look at all the stupid people that admired them? This is why you need to use your brains, people. See my "The Atheist" blog to the left for a relative essay I wrote for class. The post is titled the same as this one.