From Faith to Fury: How Christianity and Islam Embraced Violence

Early Christians claimed to possess the only true faith. They threatened nonbelievers with hell and scorned decent people who held different beliefs. When Emperor Constantine converted, he made Christianity Rome’s official religion. He shifted worship to Sunday and laid the groundwork for the Catholic Church and its Trinitarian debates. Muhammad received support from Syriac Christians through Khadijah, yet early Islam also fought idolaters. Both traditions used force to spread their messages. Over centuries, Christianity carried out forced baptisms, inquisitions and mass executions. Islam remained relatively tolerant of Judaism before modern times. Today both faiths still wrestle with the legacy of violence and intolerance.

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