For what it's worth in this discussion, the religious persecutions that have occurred down through the ages. at least in Western "Civilization" have been mostly perpetrated by the religious majority onto some religious minority--Kat's point that "Last time I checked, Christianity was still in the majority and not really suffering from any inquisitions", is well taken, but overlooks the fact that Christians have periodically cast out and even exterminated groups of other christians, often in a dispute that revolves around the meaning of a few words in text--

Many religious groups have a deeply ingrained thread of contempt and dislike for certain other religious groups, and often enough, in reality the people and their beliefs are not that different--when push comes to shove, however, this doesn't matter, and the blood is spilled--and blood is blood--