Persecution by Christians I have to say this section has become very corrupted  Let me just point to some problems  It has no citations  It introduces denominationalism which is totally anachronistic in this passage and it a ecclesiological pov that should be stricken from the section  The inquisition and witch hunts are complex events over generalized here  There is a difference between a mob sweeping through the streets a government backed suppression of heresy and a legal trial for someone accused of a crime  It is not much of a model to work with  I will try and work a temporary fix to at least remove the over generalities and anachronisms to some extent   Str seems to disagree with your change    The dissenting denominations bit was supposed to cover both supressionpersecution of heresies and alleged ones see Constantius as well of the later denominations that are basically successfull heresies  the heresy bit got dropped somewhere probably because of NPOV concerns I will see what LC is coming up with and get back to this later But I am hopeful    Guys let me say that I did not mean to step into anything controversial here and I think considering the matter above that further controversies should be avoided  I though that this section would soon get more attention as per discussion above and I wanted to help a little in some preparatory work  My point is that denominationalsim does not really describe either the persecutions of antiquity or the wars which took on religious overtones such as the Schmalkaldic League wars since none of these groups saw themselves as denominations or understood Christianity in denominationalist terms  But if this is going to be controversial I will step back and bring all this up at a time when we can focus energy there  Sorry if this has been a problem    No need to worry LC The one bit I would and did restore was the denominational in strife as it pertains to that later historical period where we can safely speak of denominations and it was the conflict between them apart of course from ulterior motives that lead to wars