Holy Horrors By James Haught
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When you think of saints, you envision stained-glass pictures of piety. But the truth can be horribly different. Consider Saint Pius V: As Grand Inquisitor, he sent Catholic troops to kill 2,000 Waldensian Protestants in southern Italy. After becoming pope, he sent Catholic troops to kill Huguenot Protestants in France. Pius also launched the final crusade against Muslims, When you think of saints, you envision stained-glass pictures of piety. But the truth can be horribly different. Consider Saint Pius V: As Grand Inquisitor, he sent Catholic troops to kill 2,000 Waldensian Protestants in southern Italy.
After becoming pope, he sent Catholic troops to kill Huguenot Protestants in France. Pius also launched the final crusade against Muslims, sending a Christian naval armada to slaughter thousands in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
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And, he intensified the Roman Inquisition, torturing and burning Catholics whose beliefs varied from official dogma. After his death, Pius was canonized a saint. Heaven help us. Holy Horrors chronicles the grim spectrum of religious persecution from ancient times to the present, including such historic massacres as the Crusades, the Islamic jihads, the Catholic wars against heretics, the Inquisition, witch hunts, the Reformation, and such atrocities as the Holocaust, the seemingly insoluble Catholic-Protestant schism in Northern Ireland, religious tribalism in Lebanon, and the barbaric cruelty of the theocracy in Iran. The antique woodcuts, paintings, prints, and contemporary photographs that illustrate the book are at once gruesome and riveting. 'At last, there is a book that crystallizes what so many have known in their hearts: religion is an incredibly divisive, destructive force.' -Outposts 'Centuries of religious madness packed into one finely crafted, all-too-true horror story.'
-Playboy 'Probably the most comprehensive look ever taken at holy horrors, the book also deserves notice as an alternative history text. Holy Horrors is not nice. But it contains facts which should not be forgotten or ignored.' -Humanist News (Great Britain). This has a really worthwhile purpose but was disappointingly executed.
The biggest problem is the lack of sourcing in the text. There is a bibliography at the end, but not even all the sources mentioned in the text are included there. Meanwhile, there are frequently no sources cited in footnotes, endnotes, parenthetical citations, or in the text otherwise. I expect that most of what he's describing here is pretty much the case, but this is exactly the sort of book that could use a ton of good sc This has a really worthwhile purpose but was disappointingly executed. The biggest problem is the lack of sourcing in the text. There is a bibliography at the end, but not even all the sources mentioned in the text are included there. Meanwhile, there are frequently no sources cited in footnotes, endnotes, parenthetical citations, or in the text otherwise.
I expect that most of what he's describing here is pretty much the case, but this is exactly the sort of book that could use a ton of good scholarly secondary sources on which to build its case. It also undermines his credibility that in his foreword the author uses the 2001 anthrax attacks as an example of a religiously motivated attack. There doesn't really seem to be credible evidence now for the idea that it was Muslim terrorists behind that one after all, and this makes him seem more eager to find examples for thesis than concerned about carefully confirming that those examples are necessarily valid. The content perhaps could have been organized more effectively as well, although I'm not sure which the best alternative would necessarily be.
Despite its genuine flaws, though, this does have value as a single focused source of information on religious atrocities of various sorts by and against various religious groups. As long as you're willing to check that information in other sources before relying on it. Haught was born in 1932 in a small West Virginia farm town that had no electricity or paved streets. He graduated from a rural high school with 13 students in the senior class. He came to Charleston, worked as a delivery boy, then became a teen-age apprentice printer at the Charleston Daily Mail in 1951.
Developing a yen to be a reporter, Jim volunteered to work without pay in the Daily M James A. Haught was born in 1932 in a small West Virginia farm town that had no electricity or paved streets. He graduated from a rural high school with 13 students in the senior class. He came to Charleston, worked as a delivery boy, then became a teen-age apprentice printer at the Charleston Daily Mail in 1951.
Developing a yen to be a reporter, Jim volunteered to work without pay in the Daily Mail newsroom on his days off, to learn the trade. This arrangement continued several months, until The Charleston Gazette offered a full-time news job in 1953. He has been at the Gazette ever since – except for a few months in 1959 when he was press aide to Sen. During his half-century in newspaper life, Haught has been police reporter, religion columnist, feature writer and night city editor – then he was investigative reporter for 13 years, and his work led to several corruption convictions. In 1983 he was named associate editor, and in 1992 he became editor. He writes nearly 400 Gazette editorials a year, plus occasional personal columns and news articles. Haught has won 19 national news writing awards, and is author of eight books and 60 national magazine articles.
Thirty of his columns have been distributed by national syndicates. He also is a senior editor of Free Inquiry magazine. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, and Contemporary Authors. He has four children, 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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Personally, he enjoys hiking with Kanawha Trail Club, participating in a philosophy group at Edgewood Summit, and taking grandchildren swimming off his old sailboat at Lake Chaweva, where he lives. Currently the editor of the CHARLESTON GAZETTE in West Virginia, Mr. Haught has spent more than 50 years as an investigative journalist, columnist, and author. A self-proclaimed skeptic and agnostic, Haught writes and lectures frequently on religious topics, particularly injustices and atrocities committed in the name of religion, and the scientific debunking of supernatural claims.
He is the author of five books, including HOLY HORRORS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS MURDER AND MADNESS; HOLY HATRED: RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS OF THE '90s; and 2000 YEARS OF DISBELIEF, a paean to freethinkers, atheists, and religious doubters. Haught also serves as a senior editor at FREE INQUIRY magazine, published by the Council for Secular Humanism.