> This has been a thing since at least the Roman empire? My read on the comment was that people killed each other for political reasons prior to the time of Ch

> This has been a thing since at least the Roman empire? My read on the comment was that people killed each other for political reasons prior to the time of Christ, and maybe even religious reasons, but that conversion wasn't a stated goal. This aligns in general with the assumption that while the religious was universal, Christianity is a peculiar mixture of inclusive and exclusive claims that redraw the boundaries between people primarily on a faith test rather than political or racial tests.