You said a mouthful brother. This has a lot of parallels with the forced conversions during the inquisitions. They also murdered people who left the faith. The Spanish Inquisition is most infamous but the inquisitions were not limited to Spain, spanned centuries, and were sanctioned by The Church.Pug wrote:Historically, despots, dictators and oppressive regimes persecute and seek to eradicate those who they believe threaten their power and control. This fact is as old as history itself and serves as the grounds upon which almost every major military conflict in history has occurred. And this violence and persecution almost always takes place under the guise of necessary purification or essential cleansing of the culture.
Interestingly, the inquisitions happened when Christianity was 1000-1500 years old, the same as Islam now.