footbag on 07 June 2007
Parokki... I see your referance to the point that "Christianity's primary spreading didn't occur by the sword". In that case, I cannot think of any religion that did as most religions are based upon a group of moral beliefs.
If though, you consider that reclaiming holy land invoves killing (or converting) all of the non-belivers. And this greatly increased the influence, scope and power of the church. Then it appears that violence was used to spread the word of god. And while it was not primarily founded by violence, it is significantly more powerful because of it.
