[_delirium]

How does this differ from the violent history of Christianization? From Theodosius I declaring Christianity mandatory and destroying the pagan temples, to Icelanders being held hostage to put pressure on them to convert (which they eventually voted to do, under that pressure), to colonial militias spreading Christianity in Africa and Asia, the religion basically spread by the sword. And it was maintained for hundreds of years thereafter through state violence: in most of Europe, if you attempted to convert to another religion, or declare yourself an atheist, you'd be executed as an apostate or a heretic. Even the Jews were expelled from many parts of Europe, where they had been tolerated by the Muslim empires (and prospered in Ottoman Istanbul and Salonica).