The countries professing the religion of the Church founded...
The countries professing the religion of the Church founded in the name of Christ, had started preaching the belief in three gods: Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. This peculiar phenomenon of three in one and one in three, had created diverse schisms and conflicting sects which vied with one another in exploiting their brand as to how the man Jesus could also be God and how one could be three, and the same three could remain one. The most impracticable ideals were preached, i.e.
turning the other cheek when one is smitten and surrendering the coat also when the cloak is taken away. “And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek, offer also the other, and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also." “Give to every man that asketh thee, and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not.” (Luke 6:20, 30) .
Such horrible excesses were committed by the Christians in their heartless persecution of even the monotheistic Jews, that the records of their barbarous atrocities are absolutely unsurpassed in the history of the world. Not to uproot any evil but in their madness to swell the ranks of the followers of their own established churches, the inhuman atrocities and the brutal conduct of the Christian authorities would need volumes to relate them in all their details.
Gibbon has pictured their character and conduct in his famous work ‘ The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ : “At Minorea” , says Gibbon, “the clerics of St. Stephen converted in eight days five hundred and forty Jews; with the help, “indeed, of some wholesome seventies, such as burning the synagogues, driving the obstinate infidels to starve among the rocks etc”.
In Alexandria the Jews were “expelled from the city, their houses plundered and their synagogues appropriated to the use of the Church.
The account of the Jews who were plundered, sent away naked, banished, starved, tortured, left to perish in prison, hanged and burnt by the Christians would fill many volumes." Gibbon further reports: "In almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruins of the fairest structures of antiquity still display the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction." Why go far to explore the ancient history of Christianity?