Historic Mayoral Elections in Dearborn, Hamtramck and Dearborn Heights

[Richard]

^ so they were not following religious beliefs as they tried to become the dominant religion.

As was stated,that was not the religions fault it was the fault of the bodies proclaiming to do it in the name of religion.

I cannot think of any religion that reads,go out and kill everybody that does not worship as you do.

Subjugation using religion as a pretext.

[Henry Whalley]

I cannot think of any religion that reads,go out and kill everybody that does not worship as you do.

You forgot about the bloody Christian religion. There's a history that should be kept from children, but adults should learn about it.

General Flynn's got a plan for one religion in this country. Guess what happens to the rest of us?

[CassTechGrad]

We're all adults here so please tell us about the "bloody Christian religion".

[Gistok]

We're all adults here so please tell us about the "bloody Christian religion".

Not sure what Henry Whalley was referring to, but an example was the genocide that was the Albigensian Crusade in southern France in the 13th Century [1209-1229] against the heresy of Catharism by the church and French nobility. It was a particularly gruesome period in medieval history, where entire towns in southern France had their inhabitants slaughtered, and the towns razed... all for the purity of the Catholic faith...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade

[Henry Whalley]

We're all adults here so please tell us about the "bloody Christian religion".

Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' is a standard source of information -- and a pleasure to read. Also, any number of books about the Crusades; Inquisitions; Conquistas; Reformation; Counter-Reformation; Pilgrims; Thirty Years War; Pioneers; Slavery; Opium Wars; Colonizing of Australia, Africa, Asia, Samoa, etc.; World Wars; Holocaust; Vietnam War; Kosovo; Bush-Cheney Wars. To name but a few.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3, Volumes 4-6: Gibbon, Edward, Trevor-Roper, Hugh: 9780307700766: Amazon.com: Books