RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 7:02 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2016 at 7:02 pm by abaris.)
(August 29, 2016 at 6:47 pm)paulpablo Wrote: But just to say, Countries with a history of Christianity have more of a separation between Church and state because of some game of thrones battles is over simplified.
I didn't say that. But you know how it is with history. It's more than meets the eye at first glance. First, the muslim realms were much more liberal towards excercising other religions than Christianity in the Middle Ages and all through the Ottoman empire. Which is, by the way, the second reason why this seperation didn't happen. Most of the regions were first colonised by the Ottoman empire and later on by the French and the British. Religion was a means of finding some kind of identification, as opposed to Europe. Which, again, only happened, starting with the end of the 30 years war, and reallly took off in the late 18th century. Only among the elites, to be clear. Something these countries didn't get the opportunity to have.
Apart from the Ottoman empire, the ruling power for many centuries. Which was the first truly secular Islamic state, by the way. According to the constitution Attatürk enforced.