Originally posted by: jimkyser
Originally posted by: ExpertNovice
It is one thing to be accepting of a religion. (Yes, I know liberals mostly don't accept any religion.) It is another thing to accept a religion that says your head should be cut off if you insult the religion. Now, liberals, are you not glad the Christian religion is a true religion and not like the Islamic religion?
So what about all those heretics who were burned at the stake for 'subverting' the Christian church? Oh, and how did they subvert the Christian church? They translated the bible into languages people could actually read vs Latin, they questioned the church whoring itself out through the sale of indulgences, they questioned all of the icons in the then Christian church as a counterpoint to the commandment against worshiping idols, they developed scientific theories (many of which still stand today) which didn't mesh with the official church view of the natural world.
Seems pretty much up the same alley to me.
Oh, and during the time after Constantine became a Christian and he 'Christianized' most of Europe, it was standard operating procedure to tell a captured soldier or civilian 'commit to our God now or die'.