Quote:
Originally posted by Joe Sixpack
Christians respect nobody's beliefs but their own.
Fuck them.
I'd use their goddamn bible as toilet paper.
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while this is true.
the third largest religion in iraq is the Chaldeans. Which is mostly CHRISTIAN.
its mainly the catholics that hold their bible as a buckle.
http://www.chaldeansonline.net/church.html
a very old religion.
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'While several apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ preached in Mesopotamia e.g. St. Thomas the Apostle, between 35-37 A.D., St. Peter the Apostle in 54 A.D., the Church of the East, which the Chaldean Church is a daughter, gives much credit for its formal establishment to the efforts of St. Thaddeus (Mar Addai), one of the 72 Apostles, who preached in Mesopotamia between 37-65 A.D. After the martydom of Mar Addai, two of his disciples continued the missionary work, they were Mar Agai (65-87 A.D.) and Mar Mari (88-121 A.D.)
The Church of the East was the most vibrant Christian church in the world for several centuries and to it goes the credit for spreading Christianity in India Link and China Link. Actually, the Christians of India were under the direct jurisdiction of the Church of the East from the 4th till the 16th century when the colonial Portuguese, under Rome's instructions, forcefully severed that relation. Actually, Rome only rised to supremacy during the fourth century when the Roman Empire embraced Christianity as its official religion. That had an adverse effect on the Church of the East, where by its territory became divided between the competing powers at the time, the Roman and the Persian Empires (Mesopotamia under the Persian, while current days Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan under the Roman). Also as a conequence of that, the Persian rulers of Mesopotamia unleashed several massacres against their Christian subjects who now became suspected of sympathy with their Roman adversaries. To avoid those massacres, the Christians of Mesopotamia severed their relations with their brethren in the Roman ruled territories.'</font>