Those interested may find Dominion[0] an excellent read. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Dominion-Christian-Revolution-Remade-...
Seconded! Great read though maybe a bit reductive in places
The spread of Christianity, from antiquity until today, on an animated map
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No, it's because your education is western-centric and Islamic invasions took over the east. Eastern Christians have been subjected to genocide at the hands of Muslims for 1300 years. Edit - really, someone is asking for a citation that the Islamic conquests happened? Next should ask for a citation that the sky is blue... This is basic world history, like the discovery of the new world, Alexander the Great's conquest…
Not a lot different from what the Christians did to non believers in the West, really.
Don't forget the crusades.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it's because your education is western-centric and Islamic invasions took over the east. Eastern Christians have been subjected to genocide at the hands of Muslims for 1300 years. Edit - really, someone is asking for a citation that the Islamic conquests happened? Next should ask for a citation that the sky is blue... This is basic world history, like the discovery of the new world, Alexander the Great's conquest…
Not a lot different from what the Christians did to non believers in the West, really.
Or the soviets did to believers, for that matter
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it's because your education is western-centric and Islamic invasions took over the east. Eastern Christians have been subjected to genocide at the hands of Muslims for 1300 years. Edit - really, someone is asking for a citation that the Islamic conquests happened? Next should ask for a citation that the sky is blue... This is basic world history, like the discovery of the new world, Alexander the Great's conquest…
Not a lot different from what the Christians did to non believers in the West, really.
while tribal hunters simply killed for access to the best hunting grounds? Mongols killed why? IMO you can reconstruct this line of thought easily -- humans killed other humans brutally and without fail; some humans interpreted the world in divine terms and guarded fertility; Religion combines many strands with intention, while the killing for other reasons does not cease.
Re: The spread of Christianity, from antiquity until today, on an animated map
#65what's up with the red isolated somewhere around Bhutan in 700AD? Is that Prester John[0]? :D [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prester_John
Short answer: No
Long answer: prester john was probably inspired by a mixture of rumors of various asian churches.
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#66What blew me away was the proliferation of the Church of the East. I never knew Christianity had that much of a foothold in Asia. I wonder if geographically it appears more significant due to that region’s sparse population?
No, it's because your education is western-centric and Islamic invasions took over the east. Eastern Christians have been subjected to genocide at the hands of Muslims for 1300 years. Edit - really, someone is asking for a citation that the Islamic conquests happened? Next should ask for a citation that the sky is blue... This is basic world history, like the discovery of the new world, Alexander the Great's conquest…
Citation needed. Since year 1300 or for 1300 years? The former is closer to the truth than the latter, AFAIK.
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What do you mean? There is a clear phase in our history which was long and no progress was made "Dark age". In that time religion already existed right? So what was the speciality of christianity apparently bootstrapping everything else? You could only be religious if you had resources to do so. Could have been filled with something else instead. Napoleon wrote somewere (i read that in a museum) that education is nce…
> religion is primarily for control of the people. Thats why you see a lot of rules in the bible. thank God the world has moved past this kind of 2010s New Atheism.
Oh, the irony.
Yes, it does feed a spiritual need but is's absolutely about control. The current US administration is guided by Project 2025 which wants God to govern (so to speak).
I spend a lot of time thinking about religion, and most of that is anger/fear over the religious zealots who want to control everybody else.
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Yeah, agree. But also, how critical can you really be if you are a practicing Christian? What is it that you're critical of exactly, and why doesn't it also apply to your religion, if you're "critical"?
I'm an atheist, but hang out with plenty of Christians (protestants mostly, some catholic) and Muslims, and I have nothing against religion per se, can even see some bright and good things coming out of it, and spent most of my childhood in a church, but I know there are plenty of self-labeled Christian scientific researchers who do practice their religion yet would also call themselves "critical", I can totally see why some folks feels like that's slightly hypocritical or contradicting.
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Yes i know. I still think its depressing. Perhaps we use the sentiment differently? Like the spread of the black death? I would say its depressing how fast and easy it spread.
It's a bit disingenius to equate spread of a religion to a disease.
Yeah, probably "epidemic hysteria" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness) or something similar might be more accurate, but that's also "a disease" of sorts, just mental/psychological rather than biological.
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#70"For the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea."