I'm only referring here to what one Christian group has done to other Christian groups. Do you doubt that there was violent conflict between Catholics and Prostestants?
Did these people have copies of the Gospel to lead them in their behaviors?
This is getting good.
I'll refer you to A World Lit Only By Fire. William Manchester's excellent history of medieval Europe through to the Renaissance.
And how many of the common people had copies of the New Testament?
We're getting warmer.
He documents the brutality that occurred on each side as a result of the Reformation.
Politics or Gospel preaching caused this brutality?
A fundamental cause of the
30 Year's War was Protestant/Catholic conflict.
We now have New Testaments readily available. And we are getting even warmer on how Christians should be Christian. "Even," non and anti Christians declare this.
And before the Crusades in the Holy Land . . .
Which was in response to Muslims going to war against Christians first.
But go on . . .
. . . was the
Albigensian Crusade in the 13th century, where the Roman church tried to stamp out the French Cathars, a sect which it considered heretical.
How would anyone know what was or wasn't heretical without studying or following the written guide known as the New Testament?
And we're getting down to modern think.
Maybe a million people were killed.
A million people? In medieval europe? Sounds more like news from MSNBC.
I'm sure you know what Calvin did to Michael Servetus for promoting a unitarian God.
He was nice to an enemy? You know, like Jesus preached?
And read about how the Puritans showed Christian brotherhood to the
Quakers in colonial Massachusetts.
Massachusetts? Where men can now marry men? I guess not following the Gospel is common in Massacusetts.
A colony you remember, that was founded because the Pilgrim sect faced disfavor, if not outright persecution by the Church of England.
Was that the Church founded so a King could get divorced and marry another woman?
Right here in the US, the Protestant majority widely discriminated against Roman Catholics throughout much of our history.
Do these people not read their Bibles, or listen to non and anti Christians tell them what Chriostians are supposed to do? Per Jesus?
And whether you think Mormons are Christians or not, I don't have to post references to prove the violence they suffered from other Christians back in the day. (And gave back in kind.)
It seems the word "fundamentalist" should mean; person that doesn't read the Bible.
All I'm saying is that Christians of different theologies have often acted pretty beastly towards each other.
The Nazi's (measuring people by Darwinian based eugenics) and the Communists (Marxist-atheists) piled up hundreds of times more corpses in just a few years, what even centuries for religious people couldn't even come close to. But, your point is well taken.
Dominant denominations have been particulary intolerant of heterodox minorities. That fact is indisputable.
Absolutely indisputable.
So what example does that set for us non-believers?
That there is a indisputable way to BE a Christian.
BASED on the living example, sayings and preaching of Christ Jesus and his missionaries known as Apostles.
They go by
Evangelical in the 21st century.
Thank you for a very good response to my OP.