If the only way to gain followers is fear, conscription, or threats of violent death, then the religion is founded on sand, just like the vast deserts from which it arose.
Sorry ISIS, Christianity can't be eradicated by wiping out relics
ISIS cultists are taking sledgehammers and jackhammers to every monument of Christianity they can find in the region of Syria and Iraq temporarily under their sway, all with a bizarre idea that they will terminate Christianity by sweeping away physical evidence of a religious heritage. The truth, however, will always reign supreme over the folly of dupes, and the truth is...