Christianity is a religion of the brown man - why have we stolen it? Why did we not have a visitation of a white god? Mohammed was brown too - does this prove that god is not caucasian?
2006-11-01 08:48:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why does Christianity not exist in the Middle East now?
2006-11-01 08:56:19 · update #1
We stole it because honestly we thought no one would notice!
C'mon, you didn't even catch on for 2000 years!
It's ours Now! You can't have it back!
2006-11-01 08:52:51 · answer #1 · answered by CoolLuke 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The West didn't steal Christianity; throughout its history, Christians have moved out into the world, converting people gradually. That's why the Greek Orthodox church, the Coptic Church, the Roman Catholic Church... all Christianity's myriad versions exist. The same is true of Islam and other religions.
God (or whatever name you use) is actually created in Man's image - a group will promote a mental picture of a God which people (especially potential converts) find comfortable and normal.
Even during his lifetime (so the Bible says), Jesus tried to teach his disciples that no one way of worship was any more 'right' than another, but the lesson appears not to have stuck - think Spanish Inquisition, think today's doctrinal disputes.
2006-11-01 17:16:46 · answer #2 · answered by ~jve~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The west did not steal it, that is ludicrous...it was the apostles who spread out the belief in Christ in all corners of their own world, both the Greek, Latin and middle eastern have sees whose bishops come in a direct line from the apostles themselves. Is not a matter of who took it, is a matter that it was given to anybody who listened to it, and that included the "west".
Christianity is not exclusive of the "brown" man as you call it. The Christian faith is based on the redepmptive sacrifice of Christ for all mankind. Your assersion is ill-intentioned and divisive.
The great comission of Christ to the Apostes before his asencion was to go" and make disciples of all the nations and baptize them in the name of the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit"
Christianity in the middle east is almost non existent because the muslims took it and converted everybody even by force to Islam, they conquered all the middle east by the sword, desecrated ancient churches and other smiliarities. I don't know if you ask this out of sincere ignorance of history, or why. No? You say no? look at Istambul, why is its name Istanbul instead of constantinople? Why was the "Hagia Sophia" turned into a Mosque, and all Chistian paintings covered with plaster? Why there are almost no coptic christians in Egypt? Why?
2006-11-01 16:54:38 · answer #3 · answered by Dominicanus 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well to be realistic for a moment, the west didnt exist when Jesus came. The west was built upon the enlightenment and the industrial revolution.
God did have his people be the Jews and that is the form Jesus took when he came. But since then, Gods truth and family have been opened up to include all nations.
BTW>There are still Christian movements there. There are many in Egypt and in Iraq that I know of for sure, but Islam is hostile towards them.
2006-11-01 17:02:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you still beating that bigot drum... What race are Arabs? They aren't *******, They aren't Mongoloid... There are only 3 races of man I know about.. They must be Caucasian.. What difference does it make? The first non-Jew to believe in Christ was Black... SO what! Let's look at John 3 :16
For God so loved the WORLD (not the brown man not the white man not the black man) That He gave His only begotten Son that WHOSOEVER ( that would include everyone!) believe in His should not perish but have everlasting life... So stop with the race crap! Jim
2006-11-01 17:04:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We did NOT "steal" it.
The risen Lord of the Church appointed St. Paul as a missionary to the gentiles. That included Europeans.
And the Jews were to bless ALL nations in and through their descendant, the Messiah.
2006-11-01 16:52:05 · answer #6 · answered by kent chatham 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are Christians all over the Middle East:
Egypt
Palestine
Lebanon
Syria
Just to name a few.
2006-11-01 18:14:12 · answer #7 · answered by **PuRe** 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually most Arabs are white as are most Jews. Next; Christianity (a cult) was chosen as a State Religion by a Crumbling Roman Empire as a method to apply cult methods to control of a rebellious population by the Emperor Constantine.
2006-11-01 16:54:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
no idea and there are christians in the middle east and egypt
2006-11-01 17:03:17 · answer #9 · answered by baddrose268 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋