For those who aren't Christian...what do you believe made Christianity (Buddhism, Islam)
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Sorry, I wasn't sure that would all fit into the reference line. I know I personally hate it when I can't tell the gist of a post at a glance, so...I apologize for that.
Anyway...for those who aren't Christian, what do you suppose made Christianity so popular? There are more Christians, total than any other religion, total (Islam comes in second).
Both of these two "biggest" global religions are Abrahamic (is that the right word?) in origin.
So for something that had such tiny beginnings...if Christianity is not "the true religion," why do you suppose it takes such a big bunch of the global religious pie chart? What is the appeal? What is the popularity?
Sorry, I wasn't sure that would all fit into the reference line. I know I personally hate it when I can't tell the gist of a post at a glance, so...I apologize for that.
Anyway...for those who aren't Christian, what do you suppose made Christianity so popular? There are more Christians, total than any other religion, total (Islam comes in second).
Both of these two "biggest" global religions are Abrahamic (is that the right word?) in origin.
So for something that had such tiny beginnings...if Christianity is not "the true religion," why do you suppose it takes such a big bunch of the global religious pie chart? What is the appeal? What is the popularity?
Agree, at least today. But it could NOT have been peer pressure in the beginning. Also, wouldn't *any* religion involve peer pressure? Yet they didn't all eat up the globe and become so...huge.
There must be *something* about Christianity that made it this big huge catch-all across-basically-all-continents religion.
Agree, at least today. But it could NOT have been peer pressure in the beginning. Also, wouldn't *any* religion involve peer pressure? Yet they didn't all eat up the globe and become so...huge.
There must be *something* about Christianity that made it this big huge catch-all across-basically-all-continents religion.
Simply put. It was/is the faith of most conquering empires.
If you're a christian, you already know the answer you're looking for so I don't even know why you posed it.
But anyways, I think a lot of it had to do with the fact the the Roman Empire made it the official religion. Combine that with the fact that most of the world was explored by people who were christians (you know the people who forced it down the natives throats and killed the natives to take their land).
Also, most religions mind their own business according to their beliefs. Christianity calls its people to go to other lands specifically to convert people.
Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc, don't call their followers to do so.
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” - Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)
Simply put. It was/is the faith of most conquering empires.
And let's not forget the fact that they used the sword quite regularly to sway those who might have given some resistance and executed the ones who actually did.
It was a religion that set the disenfranchised to a level of equality with everyone else. You could be poor, a woman, handicapped but you were the same in god's eyes *perhaps better* as the wealthy and powerful. In the end your good deeds on earth and a belief in Christ was all that was needed for eternal life. That mixed in with Christianities uncanny ability to meld local traditions into the belief set made it an easy sell to a lot of people.
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