Is Christianity a Western Religion? Consider the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Christians in the West often forget about the Eastern Orthodox Church, a schism with the Roman Catholic Church that began around 1054 and spread throughout Greece, Turkey, The Middle-East, and Russia (whereas the Catholic Church spread to the West).
Is Christianity a Western Religion? Isn’t it written in Greek and translated into English?
The Bible has been translated into more languages than any other book. This reveals three things:
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Is Christianity a Western religion? If the West is not the “cradle,” how much Christianity is in the East?
Is Christianity a Western religion? After all, isn’t the West the “cradle” of Christianity? Isn’t America, the premiere child of Western culture, the “cradle” of Christianity?
The notion that America is the “cradle” of Christianity is still very recent in history, and it may soon no longer be true—not to mention that subjectivity reigns in the answer to whether or not America is the current “capital” of Christianity.
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Is Christianity a Western religion? Where did it spread from and to?
Christianity began in the Mid-East and spread from the Mid-East.
The coming of the Spirit on Pentecost took place in Jerusalem, not Rome or Athens, and many nations were there from all around Europe and Asia.
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Is Christianity a Western religion? On whom was it founded?
Christianity, so named after Jesus the Christ, centers around a man born, raised, and killed in the Levant (Middle-East), and a Jew at that—a people defined by a religion and polity that arose exclusively in the Levant.
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I once saw a guy wearing a shirt that said,
“guns don’t kill people.”
On that shirt was a sticker:
“Guns save lives.”
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Three types of people
We call by name all three
Presidents, poets, psychotic serial killers
(Or so this poet claims)
And if you don’t believe me:
John Quincy Adams
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Wayne Gacy.
Daddy Beard Owie Face
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Have you ever walked about a room in darkness? You’re bound to bump into something.
Have you ever walked about in a lit room with your eyes closed? You are slightly less likely to bump into something.
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CALEB COY 