It is one of the great tragedies of our time that Christians are taught to be ashamed of our past. Anyone who has taken a course in Western history in the last seventy years is undoubtedly aware of the long list of atrocities that are laid at the feet of Christianity, while the list of its victories is short (if it exists at all). Evangelicals have tried to deflect this phenomenon by pointing the finger at certain denominations (mainly Catholicism) or at Denominationalism in general—a maneuver that is neither fair, accurate, nor true—but have largely failed to avoid condemnation. We all drown beneath the onslaught of historical crimes: crusades, witch-burnings, subjugation of native peoples, human slavery, the list goes on. Of course, no one points out the hypocrisy of these accusations (For instance, on what basis can the secular world tell us that killing in the name of God is barbaric—which it is—while killing in the name of a government is perfectly moral?), nor do they acknowled...
(or, A Fragment of Theology)
