Bodhi,
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->wicked Emperor Constantine<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Very true. Look here:
http://freetruth.50webs.org/Appendix1.htm Constantine the Great - Rome's first Christian Emperor
He was a serial-murderer and was made a saint (by the Greek Church, Orthodox).
bhushan,
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->JAPANESE EXPERIENCES<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> http://freetruth.50webs.org/A4c.htm#Japan - section on Japan:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>In Japanese, Kyushu means both arsonist and a Christian</b>. Its origins lie in the fact that, besides employing other means of persecution, <b>Nihonjin Christians would burn down Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in order to convert the Kyushu population</b>. It was one of the reasons for Japan banning Christianity. As seen before, Christianity caused the same problems wherever it went and amongst all populations practising pre-Christian religions. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->So, the Japanese started to refer to Christos as arsonists, did they? Arsonist is still a very descriptive and applicable term for Christos in Korea today ( http://freetruth.50webs.org/D4d.htm ).
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->wicked Emperor Constantine<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Very true. Look here:
http://freetruth.50webs.org/Appendix1.htm Constantine the Great - Rome's first Christian Emperor
He was a serial-murderer and was made a saint (by the Greek Church, Orthodox).
bhushan,
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->JAPANESE EXPERIENCES<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> http://freetruth.50webs.org/A4c.htm#Japan - section on Japan:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>In Japanese, Kyushu means both arsonist and a Christian</b>. Its origins lie in the fact that, besides employing other means of persecution, <b>Nihonjin Christians would burn down Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in order to convert the Kyushu population</b>. It was one of the reasons for Japan banning Christianity. As seen before, Christianity caused the same problems wherever it went and amongst all populations practising pre-Christian religions. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->So, the Japanese started to refer to Christos as arsonists, did they? Arsonist is still a very descriptive and applicable term for Christos in Korea today ( http://freetruth.50webs.org/D4d.htm ).