Missionaries: Why Would They Kill?

Missionaries in my mind are another version of the Crusades, just without most of the military and physical force in the good of spreading a religion. Their world views of religion, cultures, and societies were, just like the Crusades, altered or different in some ways than most of the other members of greater society as their religion had provided them with a purpose and “rational” (in their minds) reason to do something with their lives--spread their religion throughout the common geography. Interestingly, as the Crusades pertained only to Christian force and in the name of Christianity, the Missionaries involved more than one religion, as Buddhism came into play in order to prevent Christianity from spreading to the utmost amount of people and making it a world power; Christian missionaries did the same toward Buddhism. Although, it is important to note that both Buddhist and Christian missionaries had a common enemy/interest--that is to prevent the spreading and popularizing of Islam, another threatening religion in the geography, which could cause potential damage/undermining of the respective religion’s society and members. That common notion did not unite the two, however, as the missionaries' role in their religion’s history was to spread and overpower the other religions in the area and convert others with different belief systems, cultures, or societies while implementing their religious beliefs and philosophies on differing cultures/religions throughout the geography in places such as Africa, Asia, and the “New World”, or Americas. The missionaries were willing to use any force necessary, although did not initiate as a military force, to convert and greaten the chances of their religion becoming one of a world power/dominance over the other religions which existed. They did this by killing, preaching, threatening, etc. and all the other forces which could be beneficial to the spreading of the religion. They did this not because they “wanted” or “intended” to, but because that was what their religion entailed and told them to do; the religious officials, the ones close to God, sent the message to commit such actions in order to greaten the eminence of the religion itself. That provided solid reasoning and backup for the participants of the missionaries, and thus, the missionaries converted others and gained followers, and in the process, naturally had people turn against them, angered. I think that this occurred mainly in locations around Asia and older civilizations because they had had a lot of time and exchange and experience to establish their own defined lifestyle, and when someone stomps in by forces and forces you to convert after living an exposed, defined life, I’d imagine I wouldn’t be too happy. But in places like the “New World”, the Americas and Africa, people had had relatively zero exposure to other religions and cultures, and did not have the extensive history which the other’s had as their history had merely just begun, whereas in Asia it had already been continuing a history of one thousand years (more or less). But, the missionaries provided those with no religion in their lives with a religious, powerful force, those people would gladly join something bigger and pledge their lives to something already established amidst the mere origins of a new society. In that way, the Missionaries were successful as they provided those with none a new religion which would then, through cultural exchanges, spread on its own throughout that newly born geography; that would allow the religion to do a majority of its spreading, gain of power, and ultimate achievement of overpowering the other religious forces during the time.