[FreeRep]

I found Martyrs Mirror an excellent history of more than 4,000 martyrs, spanning from the time of Christ through the mid-17th century. It's a good factual account from church libraries in Netherlands and Germany of persecution of Christians from the Anabaptist (Mennonite, Amish) standpoint. "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church!" The main point is that killing anyone, regardless of which church they are in, because of their Faith, is wrong.

[Conservative til I die]

The main point is that killing anyone, regardless of which church they are in, because of their Faith, is wrong.

Agreed. Unfortunately there's a lot of whitewashing going on by certain Protestant elements here and elsewhere. The ones who actually do own up to Protestant persecution and abuse of Catholics generally excuse it with a "turnaround is fair play" demeanor.