text: The early Christians were peaceful. Like the Coptics still are.
  
  It is the Romanized Christianity that was violent. And that strain has remained till today. The original Christian communities in the Middle East and South Asia are very peaceful, and more true to the teaching of Jesus. The NRA type evangelicals are not.
  
  When the first Portuguese Christians came to Kerala, where they encountered a Christian community older than their own. The Portuguese insisted that true Christians could only be followers of the Catholic Church. The Christians of Kerala trace their origins to St Thomas, who predated the Catholic Church by over 300 years.