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== White Supremacists ==
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In the United States, some claim [[white supremacist]] movements are linked to [[fundamentalist Christianity]] or [[Christian Identity]], and some white supremacists such as [[Matthew F. Hale]] claim to follow the Christian religion and consider violence to be a legitimate way to further their cause. Most Christians disassociate themselves from such groups, which are notoriously [[racist]] and often propose alternative histories such as [[Holocaust denial]]. Racism is, however, not confined to Caucasian Christians, as the [[Rwandan Genocide]] readily testifies. Over 90% of the population of Rwanda at the time was Christian, but nevertheless, the Archbishop and other Bishops have been implicated in inciting the genocide, while others refused to send help to stop it. Other Rwandan Christian priests have been indicted of actively massacring individuals, and some of these were found guilty.
== conflict in the 16th/17th centuries ==
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Some of the bloodiest battles, White believed, had been fought during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, during what is often described as the [[Scientific Revolution]]. During this time, powerful church leaders repeatedly tried to silence the pioneers of modern [[science]]. Examples include [[Nicolaus Copernicus]], who located the sun at the center of the planetary system, and risked his life to publish his heretical views, escaping "persecution only by death". Many of those who shared his beliefs met a less happy fate: [[Giordano Bruno]], his tongue in a gag, was hung upside-down naked on a pubic stake and "burned alive as a monster of impiety; Galileo, under threat of torture, humiliated as the worst of unbelievers; [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]] hunted alike by Protestants and Catholics." [[Andreas Vesalius]], the sixteenth-century physician who laid the foundations of modern anatomy by insisting on careful first-hand dissection of the human body, paid for his temerity by being "hunted to death". While White's scholarly work throughly documented how Christian doctrine was enforced with torture, murder, deprivation of freedom, and censorship, was published more than a century ago, it has remained the mainstream view among the historians of science today.
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