bishop-blessed

Updated: June 8, 2025

Perhaps there IS a very slow amelioration; but the briefest glance at the history of the Christian churches the horrible rancours and revenges of the clergy and the sects against each other in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., the heresy-hunting crusades at Beziers and other places and the massacres of the Albigenses in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the witch-findings and burnings of the sixteenth and seventeenth, the hideous science-urged and bishop-blessed warfare of the twentieth horrors fully as great as any we can charge to the account of the Aztecs or the Babylonians must give us pause.

Edward Carpenter - Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning