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Posted by Dean (Guest) - Friday, September 17 2004, 21:05:19 (CEST)
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David,

Your quote doesn't mention forcing people to become Christian.

I grant you that violence against a fire temple is not exactly good behavior, but it doesn’t even come close to the atrocities purported to have occurred

Nice try but sorry .... NEXT!

-Dean

Tiglath wrote:
>A History of Christianity in Asia, Samuel Moffett
>Volume 1 - Beginnings to 1500
>p. 159, Paragraph 2
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>About 420 an alarmed Zoroastrian high priest came before Yazdegerd to complain that Christian evangelism was inducing mass apostasy from the state religion. The Christian cause was not helped by some arrogant attacks on fire temples by sincere but fanatical Christians, the most violent of whom were often converts from Zoroastrianism. The Shah could scarcely ignore open desecration of the state temples and the destruction of religious peace in his realm. He empowered the Zoroastrian clergy to persuade apostates from the national religion to renounce their conversion to Christianity and return to the faith of the empire "Not, however, by death, but by fear and a certain amount of beating."

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Give Dean a 10 count ref.... Tiglath - Friday, September 17 2004, 14:22:15 (CEST)
- Poster's Note Tiglath - 09/17 14:38
  - heheheheheeh Parhad - 09/17 14:45
    - Christianity MAKES Thugs Parhad - 09/17 14:56
- C'MON, Khizmie! Paul Younan - 09/17 17:09
  - Re: C'MON, Khizmie! Tiglath - 09/17 18:22
    - Re: C'MON, Khizmie! Paul Younan - 09/17 19:02
      - Hang on... Tiglath - 09/18 06:48
        Re: Hang on... Paul Younan - 09/20 22:37
- Re: Give Dean a 10 count ref.... Paul Younan - 09/17 17:23
  - Re: Give Dean a 10 count ref.... Tiglath - 09/17 18:15
    - Re: Give Dean a 10 count ref.... Paul Younan - 09/17 19:08
    - Non-Assyrian Patriarchs Paul Younan - 09/17 19:33
- Not even close. Dean - 09/17 21:05
  - Closer than you think... Jeff - 09/18 04:35
  - Re: Not even close. Tiglath - 09/18 08:08
    - Re: Not even close. Paul Younan - 09/20 22:43
      - heheheheheh Parhad - 09/20 23:23
        Could haves don't count Paul Younan - 09/20 23:32
    - Re: Not even close. Dean - 09/21 00:50

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