Christianity a religion of peace?

King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway to the pagan folk or Orkney 995 AD:

"I order you and all your subjects to be baptised. If you refuse, I'll have you killed on the spot and I swear I will ravage every island with fire and steel."
- The Orkneyinga Saga Ch 12

It doesn’t sound all that different to the videos made by Islamic State ten years ago. Another poisonous Abrahamic religion…

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badminton · 61-69, MVIP

Christianity is rapidly declining in Europe. The fastest growing religion in Europe and North America is wiccan and various forms of paganism.

Over 1500 years ago Christianity was forced on the peoples of Europe when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire. For centuries that religion was made mandatory by the church and its allies, enforced with great violence and oppression, the sword, torture, burning at the stake, etc.

In the 21st century Christianity is losing it's hold on the West. Now that the church no longer has access to armed force the peoples of Europe are returning to their ancient religions of the pre-Christian period; Celtic paganism, Norse, Germanic, Hellenistic and others. It is exciting to think where it will be in 100 years, and 500 years from now.

Ceinwyn · 26-30, F

@badminton Whatever people choose, at least they can now choose without persecution.

SW-User

@badminton Fundamentally Christianity (in any Conservative form) is not able to withstand the scrutiny of modern scholarship. It seeks to be built upon historical realities of space and time but is not able to bear the weight of the claims that have been made.

My own view is that no one educated in the findings and revelations of the past 100 years or so of scholarship on the formation of the Bible and of the historical events it records can possibly subscribe to Christianity in any conservative form of the Faith.