The Beginning of Christianity? Was it really so great?

Question

I got curious as to when Christianity really started. I know my religion is older but how old is Christianity? So I looked it up and I found this:
http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/satanchristianity.html
So Christians killed millions of people in order to make their religion grow. Interesting isn't it? So what do you say to that? Can you really justify all that?

Answer 1

On the whole your resurch is good but there was a litle more to it.
The numbers are in dispute as to how wide spread the burning times were and how many acual witchs were killed. yes a lot of those that were killed were done so by people with a gruge against the person accused. such as a spured love.not giving your land over to someone with more influance in the town than you. or just beening old a little draft.

Answer 2

That was hilarious. Any website that reports they are the "TRUE" anything is full of it.

Look. It all comes down to faith. Christians believe there is only one way to heaven, through a personal relationship with Jesus. Everything that takes away from that is of Satan. So how do you think Christians think of that "true" website.

I don't think you can "make" a religion grow. The Crusaders honestly thought that what they were doing was God's work. We look it now and shake our heads. You can't force someone to believe something.

I can't justify it, because there is nothing to justify. People killing people in the name of their God has been going on forever. And is still going on at this second.

Answer 3

Yes, true. Great reason to become an atheist.
someone said Catholicism are not christians, but the religions of today are just formulated using the same method used in catholicism.

catholics did this:
they want to be followed so they will find a problem in the recent religion in that time, which is, Paganism.
they Published doctrines that had flaws,

So anti-catholicism groups found a flaw, they made reformations in catholicism and RENAMED it.

Thats it!
IT goes on and on.
Until today.
Religion cannot be perfected, because its beginning is Flawed.
and it is not convincing enough for A RATIONAL person to believe those christian FAIRY TALES.

Conclusion:

People today are just REPEATING the same mistake made many years ago by CAtholics.

AND CATHOLICS ARE CHRISTIANS.
CATHOLICS BELIEVE IN Christ so they are christians.

Another conclusion:

CHRISTIANS (all! CATHOLIC, Born-again, jehovas ......), are all Willfully BLINDFOLDED.

Answer 4

Would you go to a Ford dealership to learn about Hondas? Why would you believe something about Christianity written by a competitor? Anyway, Pope Gregory was hardly the beginnings of Christianity! Sure, corrupt men got involved in the religion, but guess what? Christianity is NOT a religion, but a relationship with Jesus Himself.

Answer 5

Probably, what most "know" about the formative years of their religion is wrong and was heavily "sanitized" in antiquity by those who gained power in the religious organization (any of them). Actually, there were historians and social commentations in ancient times, just as today... people curious to record all the events of their day, whether seeming favorable or scandalous.

Many serious scholars of religion have done their utmost to probe the truth of early events, because they see this as very important sacred history. Albert Schweitzer, himself a great humanitarian and medical missionary, was one among these. Basically, seeking evidence to prove what most assume to be true is a far more difficult task than imagined.

I suppose miracles are great if you're there to witness them, but actually impose difficulties when the stories are far removed in time and not corroborated by authentic independent observers in that time and place. You have later forgeries and interpolations by beople like Eusebius, who knew that Josephus "should have" written extensively about the birth of Christianity, if the Biblical history is correct.

Seems to be that there are far more "miracles" in our own era than happened back then, but I guess that one has to take a great deal "on faith" ... and many consider that a virtue. Peace to them...

Answer 6

Hmmm. One problem. Christ is the center of Christianity. Christ taught that killing was and will continue to be a sin. So the question to your investigation becomes who were these people who were claiming to be Christians and why were they killing people? Well the true followers of Christ and the early church were being killed off and persecuted very early on. Once Satan realized that trying to kill Christians only made their number grow, he decide to try to corrupt it instead and hense you have the birth of the Catholic church. All of the great evils that people attribute to Christianity has nothing to do iwth the faith but to one particular cult of it - The true Christians were being labeled as heretics and burned and turtured.

Answer 7

All I know is, people who kill anyone are stupid. But if you were a true Christian you wouldn't kill anyone, especially in the name of God. Besides, you can't truly judge a whole religion just by what some people did.

Answer 8

before.... the Christians were persecuted brutally by the Roman emperors> I don't think its fair to judge the whole religion by the actions of some religous authorities> Christianity is good...people are bad...simple as that> Muslim extremists do some bad stuff to>so all religious followers do bad things.

Answer 9

hahah this is not a credible site at all. Angelfire.com is kinda like geocities, anybody can put anything up on the web.
ANYWAYS yes the catholic church did kill many many people. that's why I'm not Catholic. And no, Christianity is not a man-made religion.

Answer 10

Their is a difference between the Love of God and the dogma created by man.The wars fought in the name of God,truly must make him cry.I know a God of love and understanding,not of hate and intolerance.I have many friends of various faith,and I believe it comes down to simple respect,