How and why did the Christians persecute the Pagans? Was there any wars, executions etc. involved?

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Answer 1

the burning times, when they burnt witches at the steak.

the crusades. (pretty much againse everyone)

look at their treatment of the Picts and gauls when the Holy Roman empire took over the British islands.
they had to build a wall acrost Britan to keep the picts out of roman occupied space. (Hadrians Wall)

Salem witch trials.

the destruction of Sacred Druidic groves and the construction of Abby's and Churches on the same sites.

the Demonising of all of the Pagan gods. the Christian devil is a deranged mix and match of many or the more popular Pagan Gods.

the destruction of colture and the assimilation of holidays.
Christmas, easter, and halloween are christian holidays that were placed on top of Pagan holy days in a direct attempt to substitute the colture.

look at the horrible things that they did to the Native Americans when they got here. they lied to them, cheated them. and then tried to exterminate them. they smashed and burnt sacred lodges and killed thousands.

even today they are trying to have their beliefs forced on everyone else by trying to legislate their religion as a law of man.

look at all of the Christian political pressure to ban gay marriage and abortion.

is this enough or do you need dates and places, e-mail me if you do.

Answer 2

Hmmm. Not sure you can call them wars. Roman Pagans persecuted Christians for several hundred years. Then Christians persecuted Pagans during the Inquisition. But for the most part, each group sidestepped the other, and as many bystanders were hurt as participants. The Salem Witch Trials killed more Christians than Pagans. Go figure.

Answer 3

The Romans were pagans, and they threw Christians to the lions, among other things. There is plenty of historical evidence to support this, including the physical evidence found in the Christian burial grounds called the Roman catacombs. Pagans converted to Christianity because they were ready for it, they were not persecuted by Christians. That is a recent invention that modern day pagans promote.

Next is the Inquisition, which has been grossly exaggerated. Certain Jews and Muslems were committing crimes similar to treason, they were pretending to be Christians to gain political power, and had to be dealth with. The Church did not, nor can it, execute anyone. People were executed by the state. It's true that some church officials conspired to have certain people executed (like St. Joan of Arc) , but that was sin, not church teaching. Many people today still insist that the Church was officially executing people. This is a lie and no reliable historian will say that.

Then there was the Crusades. The Holy Land was occupied by Muslems, They were enslaving, pillaging and raping Christians. The Christians needed help. The Pope gathered up armies to help, because the nations had fallen apart, and could offer no help. It's true that some Crusaders did some very bad things, but not all of them. Very few of them. That was sin, not church policy. Still, today, many people say it was offically the Church that ordered these bad soldiers to kill innocent people. That is a lie, and no reliable historian would say that.

Thomas Madden, chair of St. Louis University's history department and author of "A Concise History of the Crusades," contests that the Crusaders were a defensive force that did not profit from their ventures by earthly riches or land.
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=60179

The Real History of the Crusades
By Thomas F. Madden
http://www.crisismagazine.com/april2002/cover.htm

The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition
http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Dossier/1112-96/article4.html

http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Dossier/1112-96/column1.html

http://www.catacombe.roma.it/welcome.html

The Protestant Inquisition:
http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ247.HTM

Answer 4

I suppose the Christians persecuted the pagans because they were religious bigots.

Remember, though, before the Christians persecuted the pagans..... The pagans held public executions of Christians. They fed them to the lions or other wild animals. I'd say being eaten alive by wild animals is pretty horrific.

Answer 5

The pagans converted Christendom to paganism.

They now have three gods instead of One True one.

They celebrate pagan Christmas.
M’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopædia says: “The observance of Christmas is not of divine appointment, nor is it of N[ew] T[estament] origin. The day of Christ’s birth cannot be ascertained from the N[ew] T[estament], or, indeed, from any other source.”—(New York, 1871), Vol. II, p. 276.

Luke 2:8-11 shows that shepherds were in the fields at night at the time of Jesus’ birth. The book Daily Life in the Time of Jesus states: “The flocks . . . passed the winter under cover; and from this alone it may be seen that the traditional date for Christmas, in the winter, is unlikely to be right, since the Gospel says that the shepherds were in the fields.”—(New York, 1962), Henri Daniel-Rops, p. 228.

The Encyclopedia Americana informs us: “The reason for establishing December 25 as Christmas is somewhat obscure, but it is usually held that the day was chosen to correspond to pagan festivals that took place around the time of the winter solstice, when the days begin to lengthen, to celebrate the ‘rebirth of the sun.’ . . . The Roman Saturnalia (a festival dedicated to Saturn, the god of agriculture, and to the renewed power of the sun), also took place at this time, and some Christmas customs are thought to be rooted in this ancient pagan celebration.”—(1977), Vol. 6, p. 666.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia acknowledges: “The date of Christ’s birth is not known. The Gospels indicate neither the day nor the month . . . According to the hypothesis suggested by H. Usener . . . and accepted by most scholars today, the birth of Christ was assigned the date of the winter solstice (December 25 in the Julian calendar, January 6 in the Egyptian), because on this day, as the sun began its return to northern skies, the pagan devotees of Mithra celebrated the dies natalis Solis Invicti (birthday of the invincible sun). On Dec. 25, 274, Aurelian had proclaimed the sun-god principal patron of the empire and dedicated a temple to him in the Campus Martius. Christmas originated at a time when the cult of the sun was particularly strong at Rome.”—(1967), Vol. III, p. 656.

They celebrate pagan easter.

The Encyclopædia Britannica comments: “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians.”—(1910), Vol. VIII, p. 828.

The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us: “A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. . . . The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.”—(1913), Vol. V, p. 227.

In the book The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, we read: “What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, . . . as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. . . . Such is the history of Easter. The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now.”—(New York, 1943), pp. 103, 107, 108; compare Jeremiah 7:18.

Answer 6

A History of Christianity is a History of Slaughter, no nation anywhere ever converted to Christianity voluntarily, Christianity was spread by fire and the sword. When Europeans first discovered the Island of Guam there were around 100, 000 people there happily practicing their native pagan religion, then the Christians went in. 70 years later the remaining 18,000 Guamanians were all good Christians. They tried to do the same thing to the Native Americans, Thanksgiving was originally a Feast to celebrate the successful massacre of a local Native Tribe by the Pilgrims. That's why it isn't celebrated by most of the Tribes.

Answer 7

Persecute in definition means to behead the wrong doer.
The issue of this kind of excited manslaughter or racial purge
is in itself the real problem. Pagans are according to the
history of recorded education, those people without the actual
skills or products to improve and subdue and then educate
their following. So the pagan definition is that they are not
allowed into the decision, or investments of history nor
the holdings of the moral correct. We need to know that the
pagans are truly believers in GOD, in the sense that it is much
more wrong to denounce whatever options they do have to
pray, meditate, rest, educate, or sing praise. All nations have
long and impressive histories in praying for Peace, health,
sharing, and love. I think this is itself the blessing that God
made possible and is very impressive. The histories of wars
is about 70 % purges of overpopulation in job designs, and
25% were unprevented because they were during very
primitive ages. 5% are reported to be over control, command,
planning, and service possibley still active because of
conflict being similar to warfare.

Answer 8

Well, um yes. It would take too much space to give you a history but start with the legal forced conversions after Constantine in the late Roman Empire then through the Inquisition, the Spanish conversions in the Spanish empire and on into Rwanda 12 years ago.

Answer 9

probably because these "Christians" were afraid of the Pagans or that they wanted to the Pagans to convert Christianity . {However, In my opinion, persecuting people of a different religion will never get them to change their hearts and convert to a religion. but, as we all have seen, "Christians" have been very slow in learning that }

Answer 10

raped and robbed bulk of the Earths people of their culture and heritage. Only a few traditions have survived, like Halloween for instance.