RestlessSoul
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What part of “That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another” do you consider evil?
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Why No Major Western Religions?
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What part of “That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another” do you consider evil?
RestlessSoul
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According to the Roman Historian Tacitus, Agricola eradicated the Druids from Britain in 70 AD, hundreds of years before Rome became Christianised.
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Going by both religions' published stats, Scientology is orders of magnitude larger than Zoroastrianism.
I'm not sure that Scientology is as big as they claim (~10 million adherents), but I'm sure it's larger than Zoroastrianism (~120,000 adherents, according to Wikipedia).
Great questions.
I knee-jerk guess is that any significant population of humans originated in the East.
But that's just a guess. It's probably wrong. Feel free to give it the attention it deserves.
Personally i think that if the religious people who gave out this message actually followed it then religion would be a far better thing than it is.
Tomef
Well-Known Member
Eradicated may be overstating it somewhat. I’m not getting your point though, what does this have to do with the post you responded to?
PureX
Veteran Member
Ideologies also have to fight for their survival along with the cultures that invent them. The more successfully predatory cultures and ideologies are often the ones that survive.
The Chinese had developed flash powder a thousand years before the Europeans ever saw it. But the moment the Europeans saw it, they immediately thought to weaponize it. Something that had not occurred to the Chinese in a thousand years. The more warlike culture was better suited to using it for conquest.
And the same thing happened when the Europeans discovered the Americas. Rape, rob, murder and pillage was part of their way of life. And part of their religion. And as a result, they were very good at it.
The Chinese had developed flash powder a thousand years before the Europeans ever saw it. But the moment the Europeans saw it, they immediately thought to weaponize it. Something that had not occurred to the Chinese in a thousand years. The more warlike culture was better suited to using it for conquest.
And the same thing happened when the Europeans discovered the Americas. Rape, rob, murder and pillage was part of their way of life. And part of their religion. And as a result, they were very good at it.
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Secret Chief
Vetted Member
Why?
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
The post I responded to was full of inaccuracies and false assumptions. I just pointed out the most obvious of these.
The West jacking other peoples' things seems to be a historical constant
As for the American Indigenous faiths, I think much has been done to suppress their spiritual practices and beliefs on a structural level for hundreds of years. I think the depth and appeal of such can be easy to miss if you are not embedded in those communities.
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
You mean it’s not an aspect of Christianity that sustains your personal prejudice?
It’s a piece of scripture which is central to most Christian theologies.
It's one verse out of many, and certainly doesn't sum up Christianity as a whole.
IMO, if we were trying to sum up Christianity with one Bible passage, it would be the Great Commission (Matt 28:16-20).
Christianity isn't generally a religion focused on love or kindness, but it's most certainly a religion focused on growing itself in size.
According to Pharaoh Merneptah, Israel was laid to waste at the end of the 13 century B.C.E.
According to Judges 6-8, Gideon defeated the Midianites (who were previously wiped out by Moses).
Tomef
Well-Known Member
Like what?
No, you didn’t. You just didn’t read it properly before responding.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
I consider Greece to be part of the West. I also consider Rome to be part of the West. To this day, we who speak English call the days of the week after Greek and Roman gods. Many English words come from those gods as well. Oh and of course the names of the planets. So I would say they live on. And they are from the West.
Just the first thing that popped into my head reading the OP.
Just the first thing that popped into my head reading the OP.
Hardly major religions though.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
You don't think so? I do.
Who is worshipping in these temples today? Now?
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Not many people now, but the earth has been around and humans have lived in it for a very long time. At one point, these were major religions and they came from the West.