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 Christianity spread by sword

The ancient philosophised very little about divine things . . .Formerly faith was in life rather than in profession of creeds.
When faith came to be in writings rather than in hearts, then there were almost as many faiths as men. Articles increased and sincerity decreased. Contentions grew hot and love grew cold. The doctrine of Christ  which at first knew no hair-splitting came to depend on the aid of philosophy. This was the first stage in the decline of the Church.

Thus the church was forced to explain what could not be expressed in words, and recourse was taken by both sides to win the support of the Emperor. Erasmus, commenting on this continued.
The injection of the authority of the Emperor into this affair did not greatly aid the sincerity of faith . . .when faith is in the mouth, other than in the heart , when the solid knowledge of sacred Scriptures fails us, nevertheless by terrorization we drive men to believe what they do not believe, to love what they do not love, to know what they do not know. That which is forced cannot be sincere. (Erasmi Epistolai,1334, P.S.Allen V, pp.173-92 )

As Christianity became the official religion of major states, there began the chaotic period of Middle Ages. The principles of benevolence, compassion, affection, “ offer your left cheek to someone who has slapped you on the right cheek”, which had been preached by Jesus, were forgotten completely. In place of them, Christians took to bigotry, grudge, hatred, and enmity and cruelty.

They applied unimaginable cruelty in the name of Christianity . They tried to destroy all the works of the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

They became hostile to knowledge and science. So much so that they accused such a scientist as Galileo of profanity, who had discovered the earth’s revolution., and threaten him that they would kill him if he did not retract his assertion.

Accusing Joan of Arc with blasphemy, who had been struggling for the freedom of her country, they (Christians) burned her alive.

Establishing the hair –rising tribunal, the Inquisition, they killed hundred thousands of people unjustly, mostly in order to obtain their wealth, accusing them of heresy and oppressing them under carious types of torment. Bellow we have given few examples from the Church History. You may know these people were killed just because they did not accept Trinity. So read their fate :

Micheal Servatus's- Gruesome Death 

On the 26^th of  October ,1553, Servetus  was fastened to the trunk of a tree fixed in the earth , his feet just touching the ground. A crown of straw and leaves sprinkled over with brimstone was places on his head. Bundles of wood intermingled with green oaken faggots still in leaf were piled around his legs. His body was then bounded to the stake with an iron chain and a course twisted rope thrown around his neck. The wood was then lit. The fire tormented him, but did not burn him severely. Seeing, this, a few onlookers felt compassion for him and added more fuel in order to end his misery. According to one eye-witness , Servetus was writhing for about two hours before he died. A copy of the The Errors of Trinity  had been tied to his waist before the wood was lit . It is said that the book was rescued by someone, and that the half-burnt  book still exists. Celsus relates that the constancy of Servetus  in the midst of the fire induced many to go over to his beliefs. Calvin made it an express subject of complaint that there were so many people who cherished and revered his memory. As Castillo, a follower of Servetus , said: "To burn a man is not to prove a doctrine" (Change of Liberal Faith, G. N. Marshall). In later years ,the people of Geneva were to remember him by erecting a statue, not to Calvin , but to the man he was responsible for burning alive. Read Micheal Servetus's Story 

Francis David

After his arrest, David was taken before a Diet, and Blandrata acted both as the chief prosecutor and also as chief witness for the prosecution. The strain on David was so great that he fell ill. He had to be carried about in a chair for he could hardly move his arms and legs. He was condemned to life imprisonment , and was put in the dungeon of a castle built on the summit of a high hill. No one knows how much he suffered during the five months he was there. He died in November 1579 and  was given a burial of a criminal in an unknown grave. Read Francis David's Story 

Sozianus

In its anger, the Church had him arrested and he was condemned to be burnt alive. However, popular support for Socianus was so great that the court decided to subject him to the ordeal by cold water, in order to giver their judgement greater weight This test, along with the ordeal by fire, had been adopted by the church, and given the name of judicum dei, the judgement of God, although it had never been part of Jesus's, or even Paul's teaching. The outcome of the ordeal was said to be immediate judgement of God. In the ordeal by cold water the accused was thrown into deep water. If he drowned, he was guilty, knowing full well that Socianus could not swim, the officiating clergy threw him into the sea. He was saved from drowning , however, and lived until he died in 1604. Read Sozianus Story 

his followers' fate

In 1638, brutal and organised persecution of the Socian started. Their College at Rokow was suppressed , and the followers were deprived of all civil rights, and many people who affirmed the Unity of God were burnt alive. Read Sozianus Story for more detail 

Sword on the throat law

 On the 2nd of May, 1648, a "Severe Ordinance" was passed in England. It stated that anyone who denied the Trinity , or the divinity of Jesus or the Holy Spirit, would suffer death without the benefit of clergy.

Biddle

Biddle's death (1662)together with the effects of the Act of Uniformity, passed in the same year, meant that public worship which followed the pattern established by Biddle could not take place. Under the Act 2,257 priests were ejected from their 'living'. There fate is unknown. But it is known that about 8,000 people died in prison for refusing to accept the doctrine of Trinity during this particular year in England. Read Biddle's Story for more detail 

Milton's Time

In 1611,during Milton's time,  that is within Milton's lifetime, two men called Mr. Legatt and Mr. Wightman, were burnt alive with the King's permission because they believed that there was no Trinity of persons, Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, in the Unity of Godhead. 

Barbaric Act of 1664

 Any person who did not receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England would on conviction be no longer able to sue anyone or bring any action in the law courts. He could no longer be a guardian of any child, or executor, or the recipient of any legacy or deed or gift. Should anyone convicted under this law attempt to do any of these things, they were liable to a five hundred pound fine

Priestly

On July the 14th 1791, a group of people were celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Basitille in a Birmingham hotel. A mob, whose leaders were the justice of the town, gathered outside and, thinking Priestly was taking part in the celebrations, smashed the hotel windows. Dr. Priestly was not there. The mob then went to his house which, Priestly writes in his memoirs, was "plundered and burnt without mercy". His library, his laboratory and all his papers and manuscripts were destroyed in the fire. Priestly, who had been forewarned by a friend, barely escaped with his life. The next day, the house of all the important Unitarians were burnt, and in the two days which followed the mob began to burn the houses of those people who were not professed Unitarians, but who had given shelter and protection to the Unitarians who had been made homeless. During this time the people of Birmingham were in panic. All the shops were closed, and people cried out and wrote  on their housed "Church and King" to escape the fury of the mob. It was not until the army was called in that the rioters melted away. 

In 1833

 the Unitarians were attacked as "cold-blooded infidels" and abuses were hurled that were "unparallel  even in the days of theological intolerance and bigotry 

In 1924

It is recorded that as late as 1924, thirty or forty unitarians met  in Boston and formed an Anonymous Association. This indicates that although there was no likelihood of their sharing the same fate as earlier Unitarians, there was still an element of danger for a Christian who affirmed the Divine Unity

Adam Neusar

Adam Neuser's  letter fell in to the hands of Emperor Maximillilan , Neuser was arrested along with his friends who included two men called Sylvan and Mathias Vehe. They were thrown into prison on the 15th July 1570. Neuser escaped only to be retaken. He escaped a second time but was again arrested. Their trail continued for two years. It was decided to cut off the heads of Sylvian. At this point, Neuser again escaped. This time he reached Constantinople and embraced Islam. 

Compare the above stated brutality with Islamic rule at that time :

The number of Unitarians in Transylvania diminished considerably, but began to increase in the south of Hungary which was under Turkish rule, the Muslim rulers were enjoined by the Qur'an to allow the followers of other faiths to live in peace, provided that they did not interfere with the practices of Islam. Thus, under Turkish rule, all Christians enjoyed a freedom which did not exist in any of the Christian countries. They were even allowed to practice their personal laws. Taking  advantage of this freedom, for instance, a Calvinist bishop had unitarian hanged for heresy. Another unitarian brought this act to the notice of the Turkish governor in Buda. He ordered the Calvinist bishop to appear before him, and after a trial, the bishop and his two assistants  were sentenced to death as murderers. The unitarian minister interceded on behalf of the condemned bishop, saying that he had not sought revenge, but only that such incidents should be prevented from happening again. So the culprits were not hanged, but a heavy fine was imposed on the them instead.

They ascribed to the clergy the power of  “Redemption” , which belongs to Almighty Allah alone. And they redeemed sins in return for money.

Furthermore, they sold parcels from Paradise .

As for popes, who occupied the highest religious rank , they almost  pre dominated the whole world. By Excommunicating even kings under various pretexts, they forced them to come and visit them for forgiveness. In the year 1077 after Christ, the German king Henry IV, who came to Canossa for forgiveness from Pope Gregory, who had excommunicated him, waited barefooted in front of the pope’s palace day after day, winter as the season was.

The popery gave birth to the most horrific criminals. One of them, Borgia, poisoned his opponent and their adherents with various poisons and usurped their property. He committed all sort of vileness. He cohabited with his sister as husband and wife . But he was still deemed as the sacred and innocent pope.

Christianity was impaired by the insertion of preposterous rules, such as no marriage for clergy, no divorce for married couples, confession and redemption. In fact, it was deemed a sin to live on earth.

While the Christian world represented the pitch-darkness of a dungeon and mad life bitter torment for people, Islam presented conditions for living in comfort, peace and tranquillity to human race.

Crusade

Upon this Christian world attacked Muslims, and organised crusaders’ expeditions with pretext to recover  Jerusalem, which was then in the possession of Muslims, and which deemed sacred (1096-1270).

In those expeditions they shed a lot of Muslim blood unjustly. When  they invades Jerusalem the stream of blood from the Muslim they massacred in Mosques, as they themselves confess, reach the abdomens of their horses. On the other hand, Salahuddin Eyybi showed  great magnanimity to Christians when he recovered Jerusalem from them, so much so that he set free the King of England, Richard the Lion-Hearted whom he had taken captive. Even the expeditions carried on against Ottoman Empire area considered as crusader’s expeditions against Muslims by some furious, fanatic Christians. A French historian was so insolent to show the Balkan was in 1912- 1913, as the greatest crusader’s expedition. When the Andalusia Muslims state was invaded by the Spanish in 1492, the Spanish either massacred the Muslims or converted them to Christianity by force. They applied the same cruelty on Inkas in America. The Spanish annihilated that polite and unlucky nation.

The terrible slanders and lies which the Christians render against   the Islamic religion and the great prophet go on with all it's vileness nowadays, too. The excessive enmity which the adversaries have borne against Islam has blinded them and blackened their hearts to such an extent that they have reduced themselves to the ignominy of enshrouding this obvious fact from people. Unable to find any fault or defect in  Islamic religion or in Islam’s exalted Prophet in their strife to educate youngsters hostile to Islam., they  have attempted to vilify Islam by those base lies and venomous outpourings. These ignoble aspersions which the enemies have cast on Islam’s holy Prophet, who commanded the formation of beautiful  habits and the purgation of bad habits, prohibited  tormenting  and harming  people  of any sort, the dead, and animals, and strictly stressed the importance of human rights, are a disgusting stain for humanity and for the nations of free world.

Martin Luther

Eventually , those cruelties gave birth to rebels among Christians themselves: In 1517 the priest named Luther revolted against the pope. He translated the Bible into German and purged the Christians religion of such absurdities as “ No marriage for Priests “ , “ No divorce once one has got married” , “ Redemptions” and “ Worshipping the Cross”, which did not exist in the Bible .Thus he established a new Christian sect termed “ Protestant “. But he  did not have enough courage to abrogate the Trinity, which means the doctrine of “ Father , Son, and Holy Spirit”.

Henry VIII

Also, in 1534,. Henry VIII, king of England, revolted against the pope and encouraged and reinforced the establishment of Anglo-American church. The Famous writer Voltaire (1694-1778), in his book ”Candide”, in 1759, mentioned priests with wrong dogmas and science enmity instilled by them. Thus he made them a laughing stock by satirizing their pious frauds, Those authors who wrote such works in those days played a major role in the consequent    French Revolution, which broke our in 1789.After that revolution priests fell into disesteem and ,it is a shame , because Muslims could not represent themselves sufficiently Christians relapsed into ungodliness instead of advancing into Islam. At the end of Public revolutions, a consequent rebellion against the religion strikes the eye. Russian revolution, in 1917, attempted to abrogate the religion, too. But as the effects of the revolution faded away in the course of time, the people began to look for a great power to worship. The famous Russian writer Solzhenitsyn, who won Noble prize for literature, says in his work “ First Circle”. “ in Second World War even Stalin believed in God  and prostrated and called upon him for help “

Today Christianity have been purified to a large extent and powers of priests have almost been reduced to naught, but it is not completely free from obscurity yet. There are now very few Christians who believe in trinity. And they have been gradually losing their belief in God and falling off into aberration. But if they had chance to study Islamic religion they would be saved from aberration and adhering to Allah’s true religion they would attain to it's great blessings. Some of the delinquency in this respect lies with Muslims. They have not been able to represent this beautiful religion of theirs in due manner. The absolute fact is that it is Islamic religion which makes us closest to Allah and which procures a comfortable and peaceful life in this world and Allah’s forgiveness in the next world.