(October 9, 2011 at 11:47 am)Carnavon Wrote: History will also prove you wrong on the issue of "people falling in line". Christianity has from the very beginning thrived under conditions of persecution. Even modern history will tell you that Christianity is most "healthy" and growing in countries where they are persecuted. Christianity is on decline where it is tolerated/accepted.
What is really sad, is that much of what is being claimed on atheist forums seems to be regurgitated stereotypes/texts taken out of context without any indepth knowledge.
Christianity did its fair share of persecuting.
Look at what it did to the cathars, catholics(by protestants), protestants(by catholics), jews, all the north and south american religions and of course they couldn't stand unbelievers.
The truth is that christianity only suffered persecuion for a short while, but rained down millenia of persecution since gaining power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_...Christians
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
