That was more due to social decline after Rome collapsed and Europe degenerated into dozens of warring statelets. Not all of them were Christian-- the Nordics and Germanic tribes adopted Christianity centuries later.
The worst religious violence was during the late Middle Ages and the Reformation. That’s when you got state terror enforcing the orthodoxy du jour, whether Catholic or Protestant, generally by burning people. And the Inquisition started in the late 15th century too, attacking victims of forced conversions.
And quite a lot of our modern image of Satan was invented towards the end of that period, when Milton wrote Paradise Lost.
All they see is something foreign, which therefore must be destroyed with extreme prejudice.
Once you brainwash someone into believing in invisible sky wizards, you can mobilize them for any sort of hate and unreasonable ridiculousness.
That’s why we had the dark ages
That was more due to social decline after Rome collapsed and Europe degenerated into dozens of warring statelets. Not all of them were Christian-- the Nordics and Germanic tribes adopted Christianity centuries later.
The worst religious violence was during the late Middle Ages and the Reformation. That’s when you got state terror enforcing the orthodoxy du jour, whether Catholic or Protestant, generally by burning people. And the Inquisition started in the late 15th century too, attacking victims of forced conversions.
And quite a lot of our modern image of Satan was invented towards the end of that period, when Milton wrote Paradise Lost.