Murder Most Foul

Highlights

Surely God wasn’t that vengeful, because then He would just be like everyone else and what was the point of that? Surely He had to be better. It was always men who had decided what God wanted,

It felt like men had created God and not the other way around.

‘Revenge is just an excuse for the stronger to kill the weaker,’ he said. ‘One day we have to move on from a never-ending chain of slaughter.’

how many millions had died? How many women had been raped, children butchered, towns burnt and families starved, because popes and archbishops disagreed about the details of how that gentle and forgiving Christ appeared to them?