The truth is that Christianity used to be very violent. Then enlightenment ideas of non-violence soften Christian countries. This is sometimes during/after the colonial era that Christianity becomes less about trying to control the world by sword if necessary.
And it goes to show you how society always seemed to meld Christianity...more-so than the other way around. The idea of a Christian capitalist in Jesus time didn't make any sense...but boy did christian capitalists become common in America. Both in the first guilded age in the 1800s and the 2nd now a days.
Back in the day, like 1100 A.D. Christians literally rounded up as many strong men as they could find, put them on a boat, and had them just go kill random enemies throughout Europe. They would like roll into a town of Jews and kill them for being Jewish -- or any other group like Muslims or Eastern Orthodox Christians. They didn't even really think or struggle with this, it was just what seemed like the thing to do at the time. Because from societies standpoint, a bunch of thugs that couldn't read lead by some incestuous king, just killing enemies wherever they are seemed like a good idea...more territory for us.
The entire concept that its not OK to kill your enemies is not a dark age idea. I'm starting to wonder if its a good idea at all. Does it really help everyone?
Or does it just replace one kind of alpha (big strong men) with another (social climbing nerds good with numbers). I'm not entirely convinced that being lead by super smart nerds good with numbers is panning out as well as being lead by strongmen.
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