I fucking despise religion

[KichigaiNeko]

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Sorry Zone. NO "conversions" have been "peaceful" ALL has been for political reasons and money.

Christianity spread as far as China through the monastic tradition. Ancient Christian texts written in the style of Buddhist Sutras were found in a ruined Chinese Monastery, they're collected in this book.



It didn't persist as the Chinese authorities stamped it out, and a similar thing happened in Japan when there was an uprising of Christian Samuari warriors that they had to put down in the 16th century. The Roman Empire attempted to do this as well until Constantine had a dream in which he was advised to mark his soldiers shields with the X of Christ before battle. So with Christianity there was a grass roots movement that went against ruling authority as well as an top down conversion from kings to subjects. Islam spread by military conquest right from the very start, conquered subjects either had to convert or they had to pay a special tax. Christianity didn't spread that way (in it's first 1000 years) with a few exceptions, the pagans living in Isle of Wight in Britain 700 AD were massacred for not accepting Christianity. The rest of the British converted without any violence at all.

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