Hitler and mussolini did not commit the Holocaust in the name of religion – otherwise, why were many priests, bishops and nuns killed (maximilian kolbe, edith stein), why were the polish and austirans, who were catholics also persecuted. why were churches in Poland desecrated and seminarians trained underground.. the pope John Paul hid under the bed in his seminary when they came at took others to their deaths..

the greatest horrors have ALWAYS been committed by people who DID NOT CARE ABOUT GOD – even if for public reasons, they might have pretended to be faithful.
and ABORTION the horror of all horrors is supported by atheist – who hug trees yet kill babies
the first and second world wars were fought at a time when the catholic church was least influential.

hitler was a true atheist – a soldier told the the young Joseph Ratzinger that God would not be needed in the new germany. that the nazis were atheistic in their ideologies is undeniable.. no matter what pretext they might have employed..

http://babbazeesbrain.blogspot.com/2009/08/dick-dawkins-eugenics-may-not-be-so-bad.html

That is the funniest thing I've read all week. I'd love to hear how you explain all the anti-Christian propaganda, the tearing down of churches, the attempts to force believers to recant their faith.

Pol Pot a Buddhist? He waged war on Buddhism. He rounded up Buddhist monks and executed them. If Pol Pot is a Buddhist, then Hitler was a Jew (in actual fact Hitler hated Christianity, though he was not an atheist).

“but it was far from humane. It used incredibly brutal treatments on the Conversos, possibly with the sole intent of extracting their wealth.”

You have to be kidding.

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0075.html

As for the Spanish Inquisition, I don't know how it compared to other organizations of its day (what organizations?) but it was far from humane. It used incredibly brutal treatments on the Conversos, possibly with the sole intent of extracting their wealth.