Who beat and killed Christians?

Answer 1

Most violence to Christians came from other Christians throughout the 2000 years of the religion's existence. A lot of violence was inflicted on whomever the church deemed as heretics. Protestants and Catholics still have very tense relations in certain areas of the world. There were also sometimes poor relations between nations who were Orthodox and nations that fell under the Catholic Church.

For the first 300 years after Christ's death the Christians were largely persecuted by the Jews and the Roman Empire's law enforcement officials. Christians were viewed as a group that would cause disorder and unrest everywhere they went because of the preaching work and evangelizing. Because of this, Christians during this time period were often beaten, imprisoned, or sentenced to death by being placed in the arenas or other methods of capital punishment. Once the Edict of Milan was put into effect in the 4th century, persecution was lessened. It would raise and lower throughout the next couple centuries based on the religious views of the Emperor.

Today, Christians are viewed largely as hypocrites by countries that are not predominately Christian. This is largely due to the bloodied and abusive history Christians have concerning people of other nations. Countries that are mostly Islamic tend to have a certain widely held disdain for Christians based on about 1300 years of bad relations between the two groups. Also, practicing the Christian religion is either outright illegal or met with strong persecution in many of the countries in Asia or Africa. Because of this, acts of violence towards Christians that are in this countries is still common place.