I fucking despise religion

[KichigaiNeko]

Re-reading your reply I am convinced you are of a theistic bent, by the fact that you only refer to the bible for your references.

So...I have a spare half hour ...let's see what we can come up with eh??

The Celts were converted during the Roman period and the Anglo Saxon were converted later by missionary activity by the Roman Catholic Church initated by Pope Gregory I in 597. He saw some blond Anglo Saxon slave boys and thought that Anglo sounded a bit like Angel so they should be converted to the true faith. What they did was first convert the Saxon kings to Christianity and then the kings imposed it on their subjects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Christianity

There wasn't really any forced conversion at the point of a sword save for that incident mentioned by the Venerable Bede in the Isle of Wight. There's no archaeological evidence of a massacre though so it's possible that it didn't happen. I think you have to get to the period of the Crusades to really see the juicy action. But even then initially at least you could say that was in reaction to the conquests of Islam (having conquered about half of the then Christian world) and it may not otherwise have occurred.

Your link provides the spread (via the heirachy of the Anglo-Saxon kings) of a Celtic Christianity and says nothing of the way the peasantry were treated. You might like to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Christianity

Funny how we have a reference? to the many 'sacred groves' being burned or razed so that the "one true religion" can build a church on the site....

This is your 'passive conversion'?

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

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

Are the above references to where xtianity got it's 'holly trinity' from?

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You might like to read this as well

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

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And another for your reading pleasure Zone

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

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

All statements to the fact that to assume xtianity was passively accepted in Britain and Ireland because of an Anglo-Saxon king and his missus is no different than saying because of Constantine and his missus xtianity was accepted 'passively' on the European continent.

Just like all religions violence, brutality and persecution are the weapons that religion uses to assert itself (and the elite- funny about that) the 'right to rule'

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Finally Zone, you might like to follow the llinks on this... http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/darkness.html ...page.

It does make for interesting reading.