Did Roman Catholics kill 5 million Orthodox + Protestants?

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The Sack of Constanople was a great atrocity commited by Roman Catholics, but five million… perhaps I just don’t know the history, but that seems incredibly inflated.

Edit: Does the alleged 5 million include protestants as well?
 
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According to the site below, roughly five million Eastern Orthodox have been martyred at the hands of Roman Catholics.
These numbers seem dubious to me. Anyone know if this is legit?
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Where exactly is this claim made? I have failed to find it in the linked file.
 
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Read table 3 carefully,
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And?

It is called “Confessions of perpetrators of martyrdom, totals from AD 33-2000”. It tells us nothing concerning the confessions of the ones who have been killed.

Thus “According to the site below, roughly five million Eastern Orthodox have been martyred at the hands of Roman Catholics.” doesn’t follow.
 
You’re right. I guess I should have said “Eastern Orthodox + Protestants” for the 5 mil figure.
 
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You’re right. I guess I should have said “Eastern Orthodox + Protestants” for the 5 mil figure.
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Yes, that’s better. “Christians” might be still more precise, as the very first example is St. Joan of Arc, who was obviously a Catholic, and was martyred by people who were (not very good) Catholics.

Now, of course, there are some hints that numbers are not all that precise. For example, Table 1 gives us “1560, Conquistadors kill millions of Amerindians” with number 2 millions. I have no idea how conquistadors (not people who came after them) could find 2 millions of Christians to kill in that single year… It does seem that the research is a bit sloppy…
 
The population of Constantinople at the time of the sack is estimated at 300,000.
 
To be fair, those Venetians and Catholics were excommunicated (if I recall). I might even say they weren’t Catholic at all, but will dispel a longstanding myth about Europe: That it’s always had barbaric and godless people (not just now). And there wasn’t a golden age of Catholicism in the Western Europe (telling from the very fact they killed Christians in Constantinople). Sometimes there were many pretenders and gave the church a bad name.
 
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According to the site below, roughly five million Christians have been martyred at the hands of Roman Catholics.
These numbers seem dubious to me. Anyone know if this is legit?
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What does that matter to us today that individual Catholics were evil sinners in the past?

What about all the Eastern Orthodox who were evil sinners and killed Catholics in the Massacre of the Latins of 1182 which preceded the sack of Constantinople? Which, by the way, was against the express command of the Pope at the time, and which recent Popes have publicly condemned and apologized for… But the Orthodox have yet to apologize for the Massacre of the Latins.

What of all the Catholics who were martyred by evil sinner Protestants in England and other countries?

Why would the fact that evil sinners killed other Christians have anything to do with the legitimacy of the Church to which those evil sinners belonged?

Jesus himself was killed by evil sinners of his own nation and religion…

St. Joan of Arc was killed by evil sinners who were also Catholics…

Many other instances of evil sinners who were ostensibly Christian killing other Christians could be mentioned… But why? Let the sins of the past remain in the past, and let’s not try to assign to guilt to modern Christians of any tradition because of evil sinners of the same tradition from hundreds of years ago…

Again: a Church having people in it who are evil sinners committing atrocious acts does not make that Church itself wrong or unholy… If it did, then the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Churches, and all historical Protestant Churches would be wrong, because they were - and still are - packed full of evil sinners committing a whole host of sins on a minute by minute basis.
 
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