Convert me if you can

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for one thing because it spread, and continues to spread without the use of violence

Oh please!

Mind boggling,willful ignorance or barefaced lie?

Historically Christians have been murdering the opposition, critics and any who dared question its superstitions for at least 1500 years*. Some Christians still do if they can.Murdering gays and abortion doctors for example. I won't even start on the Crusades,the Inquisition,The Reformation or Counter Reformation,plus centuries of rabbid hatred towards and Pogroms of the Jews. The Holocaust simply would not have been possible without a thousand year tradition of Christian antisemitism.

As a matter of historical record,Islam has generally been less violent more tolerant,and more honourable in war than Christianity.

Christianity is indeed growing in some third world countries----- poverty,ignorance ,superstition/religion are siblings. It's no coincidence that religion is declines the more affluent and educated a society becomes.


Both Christianity and Islam are faith based systems ( belief without evidence). The Bible is the mythology of Christianity,the Qur'an the mythology of Islam. Arguing about their relative credibility on an atheist forum is pretty silly.

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*the earliest example I can think of is the murder by Christians of Hypatia of Alexandria in 415 CE.

Hypatia (play /haɪˈpeɪʃə/; Greek: Ὑπατία, Hypatía; born between AD 350 and 370; died March 415) was a Greek[1][2] scholar from Alexandria, Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics,[3][4][5] who also taught philosophy and astronomy.[6] She lived in Roman Egypt, and was killed by a Christian mob who accused her of causing religious turmoil.[7] Some suggest that her murder marked the end of what is traditionally known as Classical antiquity,[8][9] although others such as Maria Dzielska and Christian Wildberg observe that Hellenistic philosophy continued to flourish in the 5th and 6th centuries, Wildberg suggests until the age of Justinian.[10][11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_of_alexandria