"Well, and how was this done? Without the shedding of one drop of blood! With all your brags and boastings, where has your Christianity succeeded without the sword? Show me one place in the whole world. One, I say, throughout the history of the Christian religion — one; I do not want two. I know how your forefathers were converted. They had to be converted or killed; that was all. What can you do better than Mohammedanism, with all your bragging?"
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Vivekananda, CW 8, HINDUS AND CHRISTIANS (A lecture delivered at Detroit on February 21, 1894, and reported in the Detroit Free Press)
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