RE: How did Christianity become so popular
October 9, 2017 at 4:20 pm
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2017 at 4:27 pm by Brian37.)
(October 9, 2017 at 3:15 pm)SteveII Wrote:(October 9, 2017 at 3:05 pm)Brian37 Wrote: It isn't the biggest, who told you that? Islam is. But when you take into account all 7 billion humans, Christians and Muslims and Jews don't add up together to be the majority. "Other" when you include Buddhists and Hindus and Sikhs and all other small religions they constitute the bulk of our world population.
The better way of asking the question would be.
"How did Christianity become popular".
Well, history explains this. You had Rome spending money left and right, bankrupting the country left and right, and then someone like Nero has a disaster under his rule, and looks for a scapegoat. Well, nobody likes a bully. The combo of bad economics and the old underdog story lead Constantine later to adapt the growing religion as his own.
I think Nero specifically targeting Christians for the fire that burned down Rome had alot to do with their rise in popularity.
Politics, is why, marketing is why. Those things together can make any good idea or bad idea become popular.
Everything about that post is wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_re...opulations
OR
http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/globa...cape-exec/
OR
any other of the top 10 hits if you type in "World Religion Populations" -- a trivially easy thing to do.
Ok, get your God on the Maury Povitch show and get him to pony up with his god goo to prove he is the father of the baby.
Otherwise, I could give a shit less what you think is "true". All you have is a history of myth being handed down.
You, "That is not true"
So talking snakes, talking donkeys, talking bushes, women magically popping out of a man's rib, immoral stories of murdering off the Egyptian first born, the genocide of the flood, babies having magic super powers whom grow up to magically survive rigor mortis.
And I am the crazy one? Thank's for the lecture.
If popularity were evidence of fact the earth really would be flat. It isn't so regardless of your claims that Christianity is the most popular I could give a shit less. Humans once owned slaves too and that was popular too.
