How did a small sect of ,primarily middle eastern, fanatics come to dominate the religous world? In all seriousness how can a religion that promotes murder for supposed sins, intolerance ,hates of others and outright bigotry spread like it did?
Was it thru fear of retribution that people converted or suddenly 'found god'? Was it thru intimidation? I know they will say that they 'found the spirit' or some of that nonsense.
Does anyone know how the historic greed, intolerance, bigotry and hate of the christian church became as big as it did? I mean you don't have to look very far to see the ethics of these..ahem...pillars of the community. Look in any local church and you'll see enough backstabbing and lying, not to mention idiocy, to make you wonder.
I just want to know what one factor (or was it a combination of factors) let christianity spread like it did. The historic violence of the sect helped im sure. But what other factors?
What say you?
2007-08-26
07:33:44
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