Congratulations. I wasn't really referring to you nor your ilk, but ok.
No. I was thinking more about the desire to relinquish the class consciousness in favor of a false consciousness as soon as the newest commodity reaches the market.
Being politically active and worrying about job and...
Where they then forced others to convert or face death. You could use so many other arguments for the destruction of catholicism. Try to use one that doesn't make you a hypocrite, eh?
On a more serious note, in earlier times it was probably because they needed something to kill the baddie with. They chose something that isn't normally used for bullets, silver, to make it seem more... exotic. As for today, it's used as a callback of sorts to the earlier incarnations of these...
Let's hold off on launching highly radioactive materials in the spaceships that don't have a good record of getting into space safely. I doubt that you would like it if the government dropped radioactive sludge on your house.(Unless you got superpowers, but even then it depends on the power.)