Why Has Christianity Done So Much Harm?

History of Christian Harm:

1. Christian Crusades
2. American Holocaust
3. African Slavery
4. Jewish Holocaust
5. Modern Day Atrocities
   Matthew 5:13-16 NKJ
   “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall
   it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and
   trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that
   is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it
   under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in
   the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your
   good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”
   2 Corinthians 5:17-20 NLT
   This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new
   person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a
   gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And
   God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. For God was
   in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s
   sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of
   reconciliation. SO WE ARE CHRIST’S AMBASSADORS; God is
   making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead,
   “Come back to God!”
   True Christian Characteristics:

1. Value everyone
   Philippians 2:2-4 NIV
   …then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same
   love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish
   ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above
   yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the
   interests of the others.
2. Humility
   Philippians 2:5-8 NIV
   In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as
   Christ Jesus: who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality
   with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he
   made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being
   made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man,
   he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a
   cross!
3. One with yourself
   Matthew 7:21-23 NKJ
   “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom
   of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will
   say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your
   name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in
   Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you;
   depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”
4. Live to give
   Atheists:
   • Joseph Stalin (Russia): responsible for around 30 million deaths
   • Mao Zedong (China): responsible for between 40-70 million
   Chinese deaths
   • Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam): responsible for over 500,000
   Vietnamese deaths
   • Kim Il-sung (North Korea): responsible for killing about 1.3
   million of its own people
   • Adolf Hitler: responsible for over 6 million Jewish deaths
   ”Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to
   consider well the main end of his life studies is to know God and
   Jesus Christ which is eternal life …” — Harvard University