How and why did the Christians persecute the Pagans? Was there any wars, executions etc. involved?
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the burning times, when they burnt witches at the steak.\n\nthe crusades. (pretty much againse everyone)\n\nlook at their treatment of the Picts and gauls when the Holy Roman empire took over the British islands. \nthey had to build a wall acrost Britan to keep the picts out of roman occupied space. (Hadrians Wall)\n\nSalem witch trials. \n\nthe destruction of Sacred Druidic groves and the construction of Abby's and Churches on the same sites. \n\nthe Demonising of all of the Pagan gods. the Christian devil is a deranged mix and match of many or the more popular Pagan Gods. \n\nthe destruction of colture and the assimilation of holidays.\nChristmas, easter, and halloween are christian holidays that were placed on top of Pagan holy days in a direct attempt to substitute the colture. \n\nlook at the horrible things that they did to the Native Americans when they got here. they lied to them, cheated them. and then tried to exterminate them. they smashed and burnt sacred lodges and killed thousands. \n\neven today they are trying to have their beliefs forced on everyone else by trying to legislate their religion as a law of man.\n\nlook at all of the Christian political pressure to ban gay marriage and abortion. \n\nis this enough or do you need dates and places, e-mail me if you do.
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This was a statement made by one of the leaders during the Crusades when a Christian soldier asked him how he was to determine who was Christian and who was not in the Holy Land because he did not want to kill other believers.\nSo to me this man was saying that killing innocents in war was justifiable because when they died God would know if they were innocent or quilty.  \nProblem is God also knows that your conscious is telling you that killing innocent people is wrong, thus bringing guilt upon yourself too.\nIf you make this statement now I would still believe you are referring to the killing of many people in war and I would still suspect that you are talking about a war between two different religions, ie Christian and Muslim etc.
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To the best of my knowledge, no woman was ever crucified by the Romans, never mind their state of undress.  In general, the Romans avoided public nudity except in certain circumstances such as the baths, and they disliked exposing women to public scrutiny.  I can't think of any public executions of women off the top of my head.  The only thing that comes close is a tradition wherein the widowed wife of the deceased would throw herself upon his funeral pyre.  However, the only references I know of this are from poetry, not histories.\n\nFor a time Christians were persecuted and treated to death, and probably some Catholic sources can name them and describe in detail the tortures they suffered.  However, many classical historians question the veracity of these documents.  Except in a few special circumstances, Christians were executed in the games, usually torn apart by beasts or slain by a gladiator.  It is entirely possible that some of these were women, but highly unlikely that they would have gone unclothed.  Still, it is an intriguing question.
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The clergy had the power to do such things/and such as many do today got mixed up in politics. Clergy with 'power' are not supposed to be a part of Christianity. As you know the common people were not even allowed to possess a bible at that time. Better to keep the people terrified and ignorant is you like your 'position.'\n\nI realize that many of those tortured were Jewish or accused of being Jewish as they were good merchants. It was  mostly about GREED and POWER- not very different from what rules the world today.\n\nThey were obviously not true followers of Christ. Christianity is about equality and love of your neighbor.  We are all supposed to be equal in God's eyes.
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THE WRONG KIND! Only what can best be described as a pagan god of war and destruction.\n\nIt hearkens back to the early dark ages and the poor versus the wealthy Muslims who maintained large harems of women and the poor Muslims who had nothing.  It was a promise made to get the poor Muslims to fight in their so called holy wars.\n\nSo when they got killed fighting them would be treated like rich sultans in heaven and have large palaces with harems.\n\nJust another way to get the poor to fight for the rich!
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we are studying that in school now actually haha. I believe that the Muslims prevailed and the Christians lost. The only crusade the Christians won was the first
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Do a little work...research religion for about 5 minutes and youll find that every religion has murdered in their name. Christian religions, such as the Roman Catholics, may have murdered millions of people to quell revolts or from turning people against them.\n\nAll in the name of the most loving God.
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Christianity started first and was wiped out by Christiandom (Catholicism) . . . which forced all Christians to follow them . . . or face torture and death.\n\nExample . . . the inquistion . . . the crusades.
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the cross has it origins in pagan history.  The cross was not used by the early Christians but become common place after the pagans and Christians were united under Constantine.  Christ was not killed on a cross anyway.  It was a straight pole without any appendages.  let me ask you, if your best friend was killed with a knife, would you hang a knife around your neck?  And would that remind you of his death or his great life?  yes, his death.  All the pictures of Christ show him on the "cross" died, not the resurrected Christ.  I think it is Satan's trick used to offend God, whose son was killed indirectly by Satan's thinking that he had foiled God's plan.  Indeed we should destroy these satanic pagan symbols.  Besides, they have no effect.  I have seen a lot of criminals and drug dealers wearing them.  What's the deal with that?
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Well christianity has always had a history of violence - actually more so than any other religion = even now Bush laid waste to hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan and Iraq cause "God told him to"  no other religion can give you such a track record.
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Wicca/Paganism is one of the most peaceful religions out there.  They accept everyone and could care less about sutff like homosexulity.  It's an ancient religion, dating back far longer than christianity although the modern incarnation of it is still young.  They may not have started or fought wars but PLENTY has been done to them to persecute them.  The witch burnings are just one of them. To this day the fallacy of wiccans being satanists still persists and christianity and alot of other religions still label them as evil.  But unlike other religions wiccans tend to ignore it and go on as they have.
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The Burning Times is the title Pagans have given to the time when hundreds of thousands of people — mostly women — were killed as Witches. The time period began roughly in the thirteenth century, reached its height in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and still occurs in many ways today.\nThis was not one country but started in Europe and also occurred in the US. Not all were burned.  Swimming the witch was one method.  In Salem MA one was pressed to death the rest were hung.\nWitch finder became a profession and went from town to town to finds the witches. No branch of religion was totally responsible but it covered many branches of Christians.\nThese people were victims of greed or fear.  Many were healers, widows, mad a neighbor, had a physical or personality difference from the accuser, or had something someone else wanted.\nFor Christians now to deny that their religion did not do this because it was not my denomination is false.  All Christian faiths have roots in what was before them.
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Well, I've never quite understood why people would blame ANYONE of today for things that have happened in the past.  No matter what religion they followed. I'm a Pagan but I would certainly disagree with how the Pagan Emporers of Rome treated other people, including other Pagans. (Julius Ceasar damn near wiped out the Pagan Celts in war).\n\nAs for someone not wanting Christianity to happen, I don't believe this.  Though I know there are people today who are tired of some Christians using the "persecution" card while persecuting people of other religions themselves.  This is tiring.  As for covering up a myth... you find what you are looking for.  If you are looking for a myth, you will find nothing but myth.  \n\nAs for dying for a false cause...  Would you say those Extremists in Islam are dying for a false cause?????  I'm betting you would.\n\nPersecution has happened everywhere, for different reasons though those reasons usually boil down to either Religious or Political... sometimes both.\n\nAnd just as tired as you are of being blamed for WW2... I am just as tired of being blamed for consorting with demons and casting spells on people.  Misinformation is rampant and people would rather believe the worst in others, than to look for the good.  It happens in all groups and the only way to deal with it is on an individual basis, rather than trying to take on a "label" as a whole.
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agrees wholeheartedly with gravesidian. and the same thing happened to me. christian by birth Pagan by choice. Christians, it is needless to say, utterly detest each other. They slander each other constantly with the vilest forms of abuse and cannot come to any sort of agreement in their teaching. Each sect brands its own, fills the head of its own with deceitful nonsense, and makes perfect little pigs of those it wins over to its side."
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The people who tortured him and nailed him to a cross were Romans.  The usual punishment for fomenting rebellion was crucifixion.  Ultimately, though, it doesn't matter who killed him.  He died willingly to take away the sins of the world.
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he was pagan........didn't believe in baptism.\neveryone knows that.
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historically, christianity has more blood on its hands than any other cult group.\n\ngo figure!