Things I've Learned

I've been reading this book What If Jesus Has Never Been Born?, and it had some pretty interesting things to say.
The chapter I'm pulling this from is called The Sins of the Church

Christendom produced the terrible witch hunts.

Christianity produced Frederich von Spree, who risked jail for speaking out against it in
Europe, and Rev. Increase Mather, who ended it in Salem, Massachusetts.

Members of Christendom, along with corrupt Muslims in North Africa, initiated the slave trade to the New World.

Christianity produced William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect that fought successfully to abolish slave trade and President Abraham Lincoln, who helped end the practice of slavery in the United States.

Christendom produced the Spanish Conquistadors, who decimated thousands in the New World (although there was plenty of evil here, such as cannibalism and human sacrifice).

Christianity produced Bartholomew de las Casas, the Jesuit priest who spoke forcefully for the rights of the Indians.

Christendom produced the colonization of the Third World, which sometimes involved oppression and exploitation.

Christianity produced William Carey, Adoniram Judson, and David Livingstone, who did so much good to elevate these people from darkness.

Within Christendom arose the slums and inhumane treatment of child laborers of nineteenth-century England.

Christianity produced Lord Shaftesbury, who worked tirelessly to improve their lot and to protect children through child labor laws.