Just because they have the same roots, does not mean they are the same thing. Islam and Judaism have the same roots as catholicsm, heck, they share the old testament, but you wouldn’t dare call them the same thing. And uhm. The whole point of the protestant reformation wasnt to seperate, but ot reform, but the result was a truly seperate entity. So yes while we do owe the catholics credit for creating the bible, that does not mean that they are the same.

are you done yet?

In Rome? During and after the Renaissance? They had no more possibility of being put to death than being burned alive in a church by a disgruntled black metal musician.

Read up on your history. Don’t just make generalizations.

Point of clarification; Judaism, Islam and Christianity are all Western religious traditions, monotheistic, linear and apocalyptic. Prophets and messiahs are in these and thusly, they’re ‘salvationist’. They also are a product of misogynistic patriarchal tribes surrounded by goddess worship.

Buddhism has no deity, no savior and is a religious epistemological (not metaphysical) philosophy. Try to not lump a tradition that only in its folky interpretations is even a religion. Buddha is only worshiped in the sects of Buddhism that the other sects mostly dismiss considering he said be a light to yourselves and find the truth don’t just listen to me.

My point is you can’t blame modern day people for the trangressions of their ancestors. Modern day Christians don’t have anything to do with the persecutions of Pagans in the past. You can certainly disagree with them, hate them, or whatever you want, but burning churches is stupid.

Norway actually included a large amount of Sweden at that time ;)

http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/mythology/religion/text/practices.htm

about 2/3 in:

It is the custom moreover every nine years for a common festival of all the provinces of Sweden to be held at Uppsala. Kings and commoners one and all send their gifts to Uppsala, and what is more cruel than any punishment, even those who have accepted Christianity have to buy immunity from these ceremonies. The sacrifice is as follows: of every living creature they offer nine head, and with the blood of those it is the custom to placate the gods, but the bodies are hanged in a grove which is near the temple; so holy is that grove to the heathens that each tree in it is presumed to be divine by reason of the victim’s death and putrefaction. There also are dogs and horses hang along with men. One of the Christians told me that he had seen seventy-two bodies of various kinds hanging there, but the incantations which are usually sung at this kind of sacrifice are various and disgraceful, and so we had better say nothing about them.

“How would Christian’s feel if the divinity of Christ was something that was decided by
a panel of politicians and various different religious figures?”

Many of them do no this, but their self delusion is SO deep, that they don’t think this annoying fact is of any consequence to their belief system.

Its pretty sad that most of them are that far lost, and are teaching the impressionable minds of their infants at this very moment.

Colin/Zilt- I’m very much aware of Constantine’s role in the establishment of Christianity. My little rant about the holidays was not meant to undermine what he did at all. I was mearly stating another tool in the early Christian’s aresenal to convert pagan Europe : The integration of Christian myth into pagan holidays.