Should People Take Justice Into Their Own Hands (partocular case)

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pizzahut451 said:

Huh? The fact that christianity conquered the empire that tried to destory it and without using violence is pretty amazing. Just shows how strong and awesome our religion is :D

What I'm saying is that your religion spread like a fad. It's no different than how people try to imitate celebrities these days. The way it spread brings no merit whatsoever to the religion itself, but rather to the people who spread it (any religion the Emperor wold've given special favor to would've ended up the same). Your religion wasn't strong, the Emeperor was strong. The king's who forced all their subjects to convert were strong. Not the religion itself.

And violence was used, both in Rome and in other parts of Europe. When you make a religion the mandatory religion there are always gonna be people who oppose it, and there were many. Not to mention the vilenced between Christians for the supremacy of a certain doctrine (the Inquisition, heretics etc.). And of course there's all the violence against Native Americans. Oh how great your religion is. It's just as violent as any other. And your religion also ended up contributing to the downfall fo Rome, so you can't exactly say it bought any good.