Was the Bible written by “inspired men of God?” Did the Roman Empire hijack and corrupt the Christian religion to serve its own nefarious schemes? Why is it not generally known that Christian crusaders slaughtered tens of thousands of Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem in the first Christian crusade, and millions of people were killed by the Roman Catholics to enforce the Roman Catholic version of Christianity? Why is it not generally known that Pope Nicholas the 5th issued a papal decree sanctioning Europeans (initially Spanish and Portuguese) to ”search out and capture all Saracans and pagans (mainly people from Africa,) and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.” Why is it not generally known that Christians in Europe and the United States were generally complicit with slavery and colonialism? It is also not generally known that abolitionists and freedom fighters including white people of conscience fought along with blacks to end slavery and Jim Crow. These things are generally not known because, in our culture, it is expedient not to expose these negative historical facts.