God and languages
The Roman Empire began in 27 BC; there was a period of time after the death of Caesar in 44 and before the rise of Augustus.
Russian is Slavic, and not Uralic like Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian, and the language was not made by Vikings, but they did have an influence on the political beginning of its first state, Kievan Rus.
And yeah, there is a Muslim minority mostly in the west of China, such as the Uighur Turks, who want to secede. That part of China is almost more like the Middle East or Central Asia than what most people think of as China. But I'm not sure about the number of Christians in China. I somehow doubt its as much as the close to 200 mil in US, even if they do have over a billion people.
There is no sufficient reason to believe that any one of the thousands upon thousands of god-claims that have been put forth throughout the ages is true in any way.
Anyway, the four diplomatic languages through the last XXI centuries are 4 Christian languages:
Latin, the official language of the Vatican City
Spanish, the most spoken catholic language. God gave to Spain the honor to discover and conquer Latin America and other countries.
French, another catholic language. God gave to France the honor to conquer French Africa, French Canada and other countries.
and English, the protestant language. God gave the honor to England to conquer English Africa, India, English Canada, Australia and other countries.
Finally, God gave to USA economic and military power to spread the Christian religion through the World thanks to American films, TV programms, etc.
Other languages with atheist GOVERNMENTS like Russian, Chinese. German (Nazis) never were the most important and diplomatic language.
I think that is an important prove of the only true religion.
Spain, Portugal, France, England, Russia and USA conquered the World and ALL of them are Christian.
When Russia conquered Central Asia and Siberia, they were Christians. When they were Atheists in XX century, they didn't conquer anything, and finally they became Christian again after Communism.
"French, another catholic language"
French didn't give any significant contribution to catholic thinking, but Jean Calvin's "Institution de la Religion Chrétienne" was the founding opus of the protestant faith.
"Other languages with atheist GOVERNMENTS like Russian, Chinese. German (Nazis) "
German was born as Martin Luther's language.
"Spanish, the most spoken catholic language."
Spanish is the noise emitted by western third world.
<French didn't give any significant contribution to catholic thinking, but Jean Calvin's "Institution de la Religion Chrétienne" was the founding opus of the protestant faith.>
Lol, don't you understand Jean/John Calvin (real name Ioannis Calvinus) fled from France to stay abroad in places like Strasburg and Switzerland, exactly because of French fundamentalist Catholic thinking. France is almost as bad as Spain for historical Catholic fundamentalism.
Protestant faith and Protestant reformations happened hundreds and hundreds of years before your man Calvin. Northern Europeans like William Tyndall, John Hus of Prague, Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli and John Knox all went on to follow the thinking of John Wycliffe and all came before Juan Calvin who himself was from a staunch Catholic family. But then again, being a Francophone you wouldn't understand the History of Protestants.
"Protestant faith and Protestant reformations happened hundreds and hundreds of years before your man Calvin. Northern Europeans like William Tyndall, John Hus of Prague, Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli and John Knox all went on to follow the thinking of John Wycliffe and all came before Juan Calvin who himself was from a staunch Catholic family. But then again, being a Francophone you wouldn't understand the History of Protestants."
Obviously you don't know shit about Protestants faiths and their history.
The only reformed church founded "hundreds of years" before Jean Calvin was the Waldensian Evangelical Church, established in the 12th century in Lyons, France.
Reformation never stopped in the insular British Celtic Churches and the Church of England - they go back to the 5th century and they were never ever fully Catholic. The Waldensians (Vaudois in your spic language) arose in the Italian Alps before going to Lyons - which in the 12th century was NOT even in France - you peabrained Historical revisionists. There have been heaps of Reformations before Jean Cauvine. Your big man Juan Cauvin was NOT a FOUNDING father of Protestantism. So stop taking credit for Northern Europeans achievements. You sad little wannabe French monkey.
"There have been heaps of Reformations before Jean Cauvine."
You're right. Each sect is a reformation, even christianism...
.Yeah that sad little superstitious Francophone was really weird.
God has consistently been used as an excuse for persecuting and subjugating, (e.g. Crusades, state of Israel, Jihads, British Empire, Spanish Empire, etc). If God is real, I doubt He ever intended humans to use Him as an excuse to break all His rules. (Kids, thou shalt not kill and thou shalt love thy neighbour, but please go forth and kill the heathens, got it?).
Godless countries don't use the "bringing God to the natives" excuse for rape, death and destruction. They do, on the other hand, use "bringing our ideaology to the natives" excuse (e.g. Eastern bloc, Vietnam war on both sides, Gulf war, Afghanistan war - both USSR then later NATO). Modern countries are all essentially Godless and their Ideology is their economic and political creed, not God.
The subjugation carried out by European countries has usually been accompanied by enforced education to indoctrinate Goddish propaganda into the natives, and hence these people ended up speaking Eurospeak tongues, so that they might pray to the foreign God for salvation.
Nowadays enforced education is no longer needed, since oppressors have much more information at their fingertips, can learn foreign languages and can force their creeds down throats in the local tongue.
>> Franco Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:39 pm GMT
There are Christians in China, but not many and they are prosecuted by the reds.
The versions of Bible in Shanghainese, Soochow, Teochewese, Hakka, Cantonese, Foochowese, etc., all are prosecuted in oriental country after 50s, unless Mandarin version.
I wonder why there was no Reformation in Spain. Catholic priests are gays who choosed celibacy to hide their homosexuality and pederasts. Nobody would leave his son with a Catholic priest. Funny enough nowadays in Spain the Evangelic churches are crowded by gypsies so there is only option left and it is being agnostic/atheist. The thing I like abouth Catholicism is Virgin Mary worshipping and its iconism.
I don't see why it would be a nightmare, Indonesia is the biggest muslim country yet they're hardly ever mentioned in the news. China is all about politics, they don't care about religion, Tibet is a good example of that, their only concern is the land, not Buddhism.