re: #563 Blind Frog Belly White

Can’t agree on that. It was violence in the name of CONTROL, and in the countries like Russia where it occurred, the Church was competition for the State for control. It was primarily to wrest control from the church, much like Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, and the establishment of the CofE.

Do not forget that the Church worked hand-in-hand with their arch-enemies, the Romanov dynasty. Not that it justifies their violence, but put it into some perspective, they were not just picking on a few poor, helpless clerics.