The Catholic Church is also responsible for more violence, "holy" wars, death and harm then Hitler, Mao Zedong, Stalin and whoever else you want to add to the list combined.
I searched and found this pristine answer.
It’s around 100k
Still it was for many people a horrible time and institutions that did that once should be abolished. That’s nothing anyone can come back from in a humanitarian society.
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It’s not the goal of life to argue with bad institutions until they become slightly less bad . If an institution has a history of abuse of power or trying to get power trough violence it should be abolishe
The article is written by someone on the left, whose point is served by magnifying the crimes of the Catholics (and minimizing those of the Muslims). Therefore, it's likely to have a generously large estimate of the death toll due to the Catholic Church. And it says:
The Crusaders themselves suffered; historians estimate that only one in 20 survived to even reach the Holy Land. It is estimated that 1.7 million people died in total.
Historians estimate that 150,000 people were put on trial by the Inquisition, with 3,000 executed.
I'm afraid that is a lot less than the usually estimated 6 million from Hitler alone, and far less than the tens of millions from Stalin and Mao.
Edit: OP originally claimed that the inquisition killed 50 million people and then edited their response instead of providing evidence. That's better than nothing, but I think still illustrates that OP might have extreme biases when discussing the Catholic church.
Do you also need some evidence that the earth is in fact not flat or the center of the universe as your beloved church claim for so long and also killed people for saying otherwise?
Just google "inquisition" or the million other atrocious acts for the church. I don't wast my time doing the work for people who defend the most criminal organization in the world
As a general rule of thumb, "popular common knowledge" of the Medieval and Early Modern periods tends to be the complete opposite of the truth often enough that anyone who cites to popular knowledge for this period is very suspect in their use of sources.
It really doesn't help when you start your citation to this by comparing it to flat earth--no educated person in the Middle Ages would believe it to be flat; even the standard textbooks of the day (e.g., Ptolemy, Aristotle) would give you several proofs of its spherical nature. It's even mentioned on Wikipedia's List of Common Misconceptions, which is a clear sign you should purge it from your list of comebacks.
High estimates for the number of deaths due to the Inquisition is somewhere in the thousands. Communism in its various forms is in the tens of millions.
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/39443/what-was-t...
Edit: It’s not the goal of life to argue with bad institutions until they become slightly less bad . If an institution has a history of abuse of power or trying to get power trough violence it should be abolishe