[bird4four4]

It's not like the Christians ever tried to convert the entire world to their religion

want to site some examples please? I don't know of any Christian holding a knife to your neck saying convert or die, as some moslem do.

[stryker]

Happened thousands of times during the inquisition. Except far worse than a knife to the neck. The Roman church invented all kinds of elaborate torture techniques justified by the rationale that saving the soul was worth any amount of pain that they might inflict upon the unbeliever's body. I'm a Christian, but I do not ignore our more sordid side. During these times, there were real Christians hiding in caves laborously hand copying the gospels, then hiding them under their frocks, walking into the cities, and dropping them where they could be found by potential prospects that were thought to be receptive to the true Gospel of peace in Jesus Christ. The Inquisitors had made it punishable by death to possess a Bible or any portion thereof, lest the people find out that Christ taught of freedom, not bondage. Interestly enough, the Renaissance and the Age of Reason and personal freedom came about only when the printing press made possible such a wide dissemination of the Christian Bible that the Roman Church could no longer impose the death penalty for its' possession.

[F16Fighter]

"It's not like the Christians ever tried to convert to entire world to their religion..."

I guess you right.

Now let's all go back to 22 A.D. when one of the Apostles threatened to slap some non-Christian with a reed of palms if he wouldn't "convert." Those Apostles -- what Christian extremists they were...

[ayb1]

let's see, there were the crusades, the inquistion, chelministky massacres...

the difference now is that Islam completely controls the countries it runs, while Christianity has to deal with seperation of church and state. Thank God. Jesus had some pretty incendiary things to say himself.

[BenF]

want to site some examples please?

You must be joking.