Pagan Temples

We seem to get very upset about radical fundamentalist groups destroying buildings of other religions and spiritual paths.  "How can they do such a thing?"  "What barbarians these people are!"  And so on.  But we should also look at our own side of the street.  In my church we have people that are declared saints who tour down, destroyed what we call pagan temples.  We think of pagans as people who believe nothing or at least don't believe in God.  Then why did they build temples?  They believed in something.  Their problem was that they did not believe "correctly."  They did not have the army or firepower to hold off the destroyers.  My church destroyed no buildings until it got the backing of being a state approved religion.  The radical fundamentalists of today just put up with "nonbelievers," or infidels as they call them because the fundamentalists did not have the guns, army or power to do anything else.  Now they do.  As did other religions in the past.  This is all a bad thing, yes, but let us remember that we who condemn are not so innocent either.