Quote Originally Posted by Mr Peabody
If I may, in defense of Christianity, "imposing" it, is wrong according to doctrine. One is to submit to the will of God, if that person is persecuted and then submits, they really aren't submitting to God they are submitting to the persecutor. Jesus instructed the apostles to spread the Word but if they go into a town where no one will listen to dust off their feet and leave. No where in the New Testament which is binding on people in these times do you see "imposing". If any one was persecuted it was Jews and Christians. This is only referring to the writing in the New Testament. God gave us free will who is any man to try and take it away? Well, that is if one believes in God.
Just wading in here...this is absolutely correct. And when you find Christians trying to impose their will (see the works of the Catholic Church) they are out of the will of God

One can call themselves what they will but it don't make it so. History is full of much evil that was done in the name of Christianity. The thing about the Bible is the same with any book if you cherry pick lines here and there you can make it say pretty much what you want. To understand a book it has to be taken complete and in context, it does help to grasp the intended meaning.
Also correct. However there is a dangerous undercurrent that is floating amongst the current church. The "literal" interpretation of scripture when it was meant for symbolic, and the reverse. Another disease is the pious judgement of others, when that is not our place. We are constantly displacing what is historical, and placing it wrongfully into the present. For instance, in the old testament, God commanded the children of Israel to destroy their enemies, man, women and children. To use this as a justification for war today would completely ignore the loving words of Jesus Christ found in John 13:34,35, John 15:12 and 17, Romans 12:10 and Romans 13:8. George W. Bush who was supposed to be a Godly man, did this at least twice, and was probably the best cherry picker in my lifetime.