The Roman Catholic Church
When Jesus ascended into heaven , He left one Apostolic church behind him- not a ragged bunch of bickering and contesting factions. The church had unity for hundreds of years, until the Great Schism, when the eastern and western halves of the Church broke up
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Party_%28Germany%29
especially:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Party_%28Germany%29#The_Hitler_government_and_new_elections
and onwards. The party was dissolved before the concordat and for other reasons.
It must also be noted, that the Church has never formed any parties and was in fact for a long time against even lay people taking part in party politics, because the Church was against secular democracy.
The Inquisition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
Death toll for the Iberian inquisitions (Spain + Portugal): somewhere in the region of 6000 in over 300 years. Most were NOT burned alive but garroted, then burned. Horrible, but not really the kind of reign of terror envisioned by the popular mind.
Also, concerning the institution of the Inquisition in general:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Inquisition#Punishment
The Crusades:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade
"Another factor that contributed to the change in Western attitudes towards the East came in the year 1009, when the Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ordered the destruction of all churches and synagogues in his Caliphate, which included North Africa and the Middle East. That destruction included the Church of the Holy Sepulchre"... One would hope that the Muslims would stop whining sometime and face up to their responsibility for the start of the crusades.
"If we can clear the Catholic church of these, then all Christianity benefits"
"If we"!?! The educated man already knows that there is more to these things than what is commonly held (I for one am not a Catholic!). Lies against the Catholic Church have mainly been invented and proliferated by other parts of Christianity. They are to blame, even now when these falsehoods have taken on a life of their own and are used against the whole of Christendom. Actually, it kinda serves them right. Repentance is called for - the Catholic Church I'm sure can take care of itself.
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