| A very unreal idealistic view. They all had religious wars. Read the Bahagvagita. The Romans made war in the name of their war God
Many warred in affirmation of their war god, but that is not a "religious" war; they did not seek the conversion or extermination of a people for different religiions. The nature of religion in the world of Tradition was such that Warriors were being themselves, and thus "paying homage to the war gods" in a sense, by fighting, but this is very different from a Protestant invading Bavaria and burning Catholic churches. and tried to exterminate the Christians in the name of their God.
No, they tried to exterminate Christianity because it was contrary to the spirit of life that abounded in every other faith. It was "The Atheist pestilence" that undermined all other paths in the world, and thus represented a danger to the entire order of things. If you want to argue that Romans wanted religious orthodoxy, why would they only pick on the Christians and not every other sect and cult scattered around the empire? Christian Rome turned on all other Gods in the name of the one true Christian God.
...and? The Mayans were blood thrusty dominaters. The sacraficed all their enemy captives to their Gods.
So? This says nothing of a desire to convert others or a belief that their path was the only one. Their sacrifice was just that- a sacrifice, not a punishment for having a different god. The people they sacrificed had the same pantheons and performed the same sacrifices in most cases. The Celts were a neat people, but they too raised there sword against those who defied their God.
No, they fought those who opposed them. The fact that they would perform one of any number of rituals to empower themselves before war with the presence of their own gods does not mean their war was motivated by their desire to kill other religions. There are no angels, just people.
I thought you were a Buddhist...
"Die! Fall upon your sword. Fall upon your knee.
Die like your Son, nailed to his Tree.
Die by my hand. Die in my heart,
plucked from the Ice;
forever cold." |