Plausibility Check: Non-Monotheistic Religious percecution

I have a question regarding the specifics of the OP's initial inquiry:

Is he asking for instances of religious persecution not at the hands of monotheists? Or where neither the persecuted or the persecutors are monotheists? Or, to get even more picky, where do instances where religions persecuted on non-religious grounds fall?

For example, during the Principate, most persecution of the Christians was on the grounds that the Romans absolutely hated any non-public association of people. Remember that even loved Emperors like Trajan opposed innocent things like volunteer fire brigades on the grounds that it could evolve into a secret society. Thats why they also persecuted various other eastern cults, even ones that did not conflict with the Roman state religion.
 
I have a question regarding the specifics of the OP's initial inquiry:

Is he asking for instances of religious persecution not at the hands of monotheists? Or where neither the persecuted or the persecutors are monotheists? Or, to get even more picky, where do instances where religions persecuted on non-religious grounds fall?

For example, during the Principate, most persecution of the Christians was on the grounds that the Romans absolutely hated any non-public association of people. Remember that even loved Emperors like Trajan opposed innocent things like volunteer fire brigades on the grounds that it could evolve into a secret society. Thats why they also persecuted various other eastern cults, even ones that did not conflict with the Roman state religion.

It was mostly the first one, though now I am also curious of the other two options. This was mostly based on an idea of an ATL where one or more of the European polytheistic religions organizes and splits into denominations fighting amongst themselves and I wanted to check the plausibility on that.
 
Sorry to be anal but atheism isn't an organised group.

No, but there were (and are) organized groups which officially profess atheism, including states which persecute religious believers.

Some of the historical examples given of "persecution by atheists" usually are based on communist regimes but considering many of them had state controlled churches and went after other non-religious groups, this was more a question of preventing parallel power structures then persecution targeted at religions.

Atheism was an official policy of Communist regimes. Marx had described religion as "the opiate of the masses", and the abolition of religion was always a Communist goal. ("Hang the last capitalist with the guts of the last priest.")

They tolerated state-controlled churches for show, or where overt persecution of a religion would be politically too difficult, but the official policy was violently anti-religious. This was true in the USSR, where thousands of churches and even cathedrals were destroyed and thousands of clergy imprisoned or executed.

A more dramatic case was in Spain during the 1936-1939 Civil War. After the right-wing rebellion, Left radicals ran amok in Republican-controlled areas; about 8,000 priests and 500 nuns were among those killed, and many churches were burned. (The "Red Terror" was largely perpetrated by anarchosyndicalists and fringe Socialists. The Communist Party deliberately remained aloof while the hotheads ran wild, then stepped in as the disciplined "good cop".)

Getting back to the OP's question - during the Boxer Rebellion in China, many Chinese Christian converts were murdered by the Boxers.
 
Jesus isn't the protestants' saviour or they don't have synods, elders or what have you ?

Unitarians do not accept the Nicene Creed doctrine of Jesus as God-Man-Saviour.

Unitarians, Calvinists, Baptists, Quakers, and some others don't have "hierarchies". The Lutheran and Episcopal (obviously) Churches have hierarchies.
 
All this talk of atheism and no one has mentioned the Qarmatians and the sack of Mecca? I mean murdering pious muslims due to them going on pilgrimage because you believe there is no god is one thing, having your leader standing atop the Kaabaa and declaring that the age of religion is at an end beginning with Mecca and calling Jesus, Muhammad and Moses The Arch trinity of Liars is above and beyond being a dick. That line was crossed when they started citing hadiths from the Koran while defiling the Wells and slaughtering pilgrims in the city to rub it in.
 
It was mostly the first one, though now I am also curious of the other two options. This was mostly based on an idea of an ATL where one or more of the European polytheistic religions organizes and splits into denominations fighting amongst themselves and I wanted to check the plausibility on that.

In that case, polytheists persecuted other religions often enough for it to be perfectly plausible. Just that their motivations were generally different than monotheists.
 
In that case, polytheists persecuted other religions often enough for it to be perfectly plausible. Just that their motivations were generally different than monotheists.
I wouldn't go with that latter part honestly. State persecution was just about always motivated by either a desire for a stronger state based on religious hegemony, while persecution by the mob tended to be based in fanaticism, and that holds true for pretty much all religions everywhere always.
 
I wouldn't go with that latter part honestly. State persecution was just about always motivated by either a desire for a stronger state based on religious hegemony, while persecution by the mob tended to be based in fanaticism, and that holds true for pretty much all religions everywhere always.

Fair enough, when you view it abstractly, then it is pretty much the same.
 
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