This thread is hard to wade through. So much information.

Terror means inflicting fear on others through violence. Some missionaries have done that, some didn't. Auto-da-fe's, Crusades, early cultures such as the Langadoc, Wicca, many middle European early religions, Goddess based religions, holy wars,collapse of the Ottoman Empire, persecution of early Christians.....all religious terrorism. It has happened through missionary zeal. It has also not happened.

I disagree that religion has not caused damage to the Native American. They were considered heathens by the white man based on scriptural asssumptions. The buffalo hunt was a kind of terrorism against the Native Americans. Religion did have something to do with that, not just the inecession of the railroad. We saw lynching in the South based on the idea that there was a scriptural basis for the preservation of slavery. In a sense, the whole Civil Rights struggle was waged against a kind of terrorism.

The idea of a missionary assumes a kind of superior position in trying to save another's soul may not be terrorism but it is arrogant and insulting. It can lead to terrorism but it is not always.

The idea that some fundamentalist Christians have that Jewish people can't go to Heaven could be construed as a kind of psychological terrorism. Terrorism doesn't always have to contain the extermination of unbelievers. Sometimes, it can be intimidation.

Frank