@kjw47
Catholics at one time killed pagans for participating in what they called idol worship. Things many ant-Catholics today opposed shared similar feelings of the original christian beliefs until later in the Roman picked it up again. Unfortunately, today's Roman Catholic or Catholic in general shifted from quote on quote worshiping idols (if one likes) to, after popes came a long, more worshiping what the idols represented. The reason the idols (or statues) looked as if they were worshiped back them was because people were illiterate. So, they used things like Carpet Pages (carpet design with a letter and pictures sown to depict the "beautiful word of god." So, the bible was depicted in pictures since people could not read. Same as with statues. That's why you see relief statues because they felt that free standing statues people will worship (and get killed because of it).
Roman Catholicism didn't promote worship to statues. Christianity in general before Romanism did not. Medieval European history (art I'm taking up now) is very interesting in its art.
While you can say trinity (relationship with father, son, and holy spirit) is pagan all you want, but the actual word not man's depiction of it is a scriptural concept. People actually believed that the son, jesus christ, had a father who was the creator. They also believed that when christ died his (holy) spirit came among people and that's when the apostles spread the word and evangelized.
Jump to today, that history is still going on. Jehovah's Witness, evangelists, and in part Catholics are still pushing christ and the belief on pagans (like myself and many people on RF) as if your truth is
the truth; it is not.
Unfortunately, you and many are reinventing the wheel.
If you want people to come to christ and share the truth you know if, you need to change your approach. I know you said you "tried" before but, if you think of it, is this approach any better than the one you said you tried? I'm thinking it was more frustration; everyone has their own truth.
I honestly in my heart feel if we didn't have laws against it, christians whether peer pressured and/or not, would kill pagans for not believing what they do. There are subtle ways to "kill" people from indoctrination and others like befriending someone for the sole purpose of saving them.
There are many ways to evangelize. There are many ways to spread the gospel.
The former is very rude and will not bring people to christ until
they for themselves find christ and god. The latter is more educational. It will also help individuals find peers who think as they do without displacing their beliefs and thoughts as false.
It's a growing process. Sounds like you're stuck in your ways.
This post was for any who read it. I assume you won't but then, I like to converse about things of meat not go back and forth about truth
s without dialogue.
You can read some of this history here:
The Christian Church and its Persecutions of Pagans Not all of my info is online. Though, it takes good will and acceptance to believe me especially online.