| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Man Against Time,) I understand, but I want to know why near genocide is so abominable to you. Pagans committed "near genocide" all the time with no hypocritical desire to "civilize" or "convert" other religions.
The Romans, Egyptians, Indians (In India, not America), Mayans, and Celts had a very organized religion and had no religious wars. I think you are typically confusing Religion with Christianity, which is actually very irreligious (against hierarchy, against rituals, etc).<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
A very unreal idealistic view. They all had religious wars. Read the Bahagvagita. The Romans made war in the name of their war God and tried to exterminate the Christians in the name of their God. They also had a habit of collecting Gods. Christian Rome turned on all other Gods in the name of the one true Christian God. The Mayans were blood thrusty dominaters. The sacraficed all their enemy captives to their Gods. The Celts were a neat people, but they too raised there sword against those who defied their God.
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