(December 22, 2011 at 2:13 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Except when they weren't. Human history is bloody, polytheists and monotheists both. Polytheism can have a sort of built in tolerance for other faiths. "Many gods and so why not yours as well." It doesn't always work out that way though. Even when it does, there's usually a current of "many gods, but mine are the best, the greatest". Cue Rome...lol.
It isn't a fundamental part of pagan religions though that all non believers in their god should be put to death as it is with Christianity.
I think thats why Christianity was so successful in the end because it was the most intolerant religion in Europe and it was seen as God's work to kill all non believers and conbvert everyone to Christianity.
