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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ yeah, Yahweh was a jealous god, and didn't believe in religious freedom or having to compete in the marketplace of religious views with other gods.[/quote]

[b]He competed, and won[/b]. As Christianity is the world’s largest religion, and there are no Amorites anymore.

Do you know what the Amorites believed and what they worshiped and what their culture was like? Are you wanting to be and Amorite and are mad your religious line is no longer around? Why all the love for the Amorites?[/quote]

Competed? You mean Joshua killed them all?  I guess just like the U.S. cavalry "competed and won" against the indigenous people of the western plains -- manifest destiny and all that, God was on our side right?

Get real, Christianity was largely imposed at the point of a sword, and proselytizing.  It never "competed" in the marketplace of ideas. Indeed heretics were burned at the stake.[/quote]

You need to study history. Peter and Paul spread Christianity by word of mouth. Roman emperor Constantine converted voluntarily—whether because his mom was Christian or for political reasons is debatable, but it had nothing to do with the sword. (And it came after three centuries of persecution of Christians.)  Then, for most of his rein, Constantine continued to encourage the construction of new pagan temples. Missionaries, love them or hate them, hardly carry swords. Even the sainted Bart Ehrman agrees Christianity spread because of things like the promise of eternal life.

Also, it’s hard to get past your claim that Joshua in the 13th century BCE was a Christian.[/quote]

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