[Buddha-l] Religious Persecution

[L.S. Cousins]

Curt,

Are you not overstating the case somewhat here ? I am not convinced 
that Constantine engaged in 'systematic and systemic violent 
intolerance'. Even Theodosius did not do that. Otherwise we would not 
see the continuation of the schools of pagan philosophy in Athens 
until long after this and e.g. the temples in Greece would not have 
lasted as long as they did.

It seems to me more a case of a slowly growing infection that 
gradually got worse in both Christianity and Islam over the course of 
half a millennium.

Lance

>and those reasons mirrored the systematic and systemic violent 
>intolerance that had characterized Christianity since the year 325.
>
>Curt Steinmetz