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Interesting. You don't hear much about the picts and even though they were technically iron age, it's unsual to discover they actually built anything, which is probably unfair but then maybe it's time they got a little more publicity.

You seriously believe that? The 'state' did not officially support christianity until Constantine made it his favoured religion, and then the whole point was civil order, not riots. Prior to that christianity was in no sense a single coherent movement, unsupported by the state, and more often than not exploited as a wealth creation scheme by unscrupulous self-proclaimed bishops. Lynch mobs are by their nature social impulses, not structures, so therefore your premis seems a bit unlikely to the least.

Lynch mobs of one belief system against another? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!