Except violence toward Pagans is a recorded fact in Roman history. Honey, I am tired of your prejudices. You paint with a very broad brush. The difference between you and me: I weep for all victims, no matter what group they are members of.
Certainly so...by Romans. Rome was a pagan state - Mithraism. It was Rome that threatened Christians before Christians were finally marginalized and sent packing at Nicea.
You claim you know what Nicea was about, but if you did, you'd know that Christians were pushed aside and so threatened that they fled, and had to hide themselves and their writings/teachings in the desert for fear that they would be destroyed by the newly created frankenstein religion of Rome - which was not Christian but an amalgamation (why it is called catholic) excluding vital Christian works and teachings. Fortunately they did do that, so today we have many which have been found and preserved. Those are the facts, miss madam. It's you who have a prejudice against Christians in a broad brushed way that you can't even distinguish between actual Christians who went underground in the 4th century, and the xtians of the bastard Roman religion and its descendants.
So, do you condemn or even acknowledge the atrocities committed by islam? Do you understand the 1400 year trail of death and destruction, persecution and intolerance it has left behind and continues to prosecute?
Do you know it has murdered more people than all of those sick movements I had mentioned combined.
You like others are afraid to speak the truth about it, but like so many cowards bash Christians who you never knew and don't know the teachings of or you'd know they never harmed anyone in living their philosophy.
You know, Lotus, if it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, as it is said...it's a duck. If not, it ain't. And it's no matter at all what one calls themselves or even what others call them, if the haven't the attributes of that thing, then they are not that thing. That's why I mentioned the 3 horned squirrel. You may want to identify as tree, but it doesn't mean you're made of wood. Catholics, protestants, evangelicals....ain't Christians. I call them xtians.