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That may be true, but Christianity did not start the wars with Islam, Islam did. Christianity only fought back. Furthermore, Christianity was adopted by a Roman Emperor, but in the same years Islam was busy conquering territory for the ol' Arabian moon god, Christianity was not spreading itself with the sword.

You're a number of centuries off between the adoption of Christianity by Constantine and the dealings of Muhammed. Secondly, you need not go to the middle ages to find the spread of Christianity by the sword. You need only look at Charlemagne.

I am in no way trying to defend Islam, either in its initial spread or in its present attempts to conquer by means of the unthinking brutality of suicide. I feel that much of the Islam clergy would be more appropriate in the Stone Age. However, the topic of this post was how brutal Islam was in the past. My point is that, during that era, Christianity was just as violent.

The difference is that Christianity has outgrown those acts; Islam has not.

What Constantine adopted was not Christianity. The twelve Apostles had all been murdered except for John, The Christ himself was hung from a cross, the organization remaining was left to itself and was totally apostate. How could Christianity as we would like to view it, as the Savior himself taught it, remain whole, when the nation Jesus came to, rejected it with such finality.

It took the printing press, and the reformers for Christianity to begin the rise from the dead. Those thousand plus years are not called the dark ages for nothing. Christ brought light, life, and truth, all of which were rejected by a nation of practicing apostates, some of whom would accept The Man and his doctrine, but the majority would for the moment attempt to stem the tide of Christianity if only for a moment.