Talk:Deruella/@comment-78.1.68.94-20140110135201/@comment-162.40.198.4-20140111224057

The violence that takes place in the world today is little different from the violence that took place 50, 100, or 200+ years ago. They're just on a grander scale because we have a vastly larger population and technologies of war that Hannibal, Alexander the Great, Cesare Borgia and Oliver Cromwell couldn't even dream of.

With regard to Rodrigo Borgia, that's just an individual example from you. The Church as a whole stamped out nearly all forms of learning throughout the Middle Ages, whether it was the physical sciences, mathematics, philosophy or basic literacy.

Granted, the Church has reformed greatly since those days, but still, it's why religious institutions are so often portrayed in a negative light in fiction.