Posted on 08/02/2015 12:18:16 PM PDT by The Cuban
(The link is to a map supposedly showing the spread of world religions through time. Conveniently, It fails to show that Palestine, North Africa or the Middle East was Christianized prior to Mohammed, or, in fact, ever. This is the BS the machine is spreading as fact.)
Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world. Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and had a profound influence on the trajectory of the human race.
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44:49 Minutes
“Why We Are Afraid” - A 1400 Year Secret by Dr Bill Warner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oimshetU-Z8
Bill Warner holds a PhD in physics and math, NC State University, 1968. He has been a university professor, businessman, and applied physicist. Dr. Warner has compiled data of Islamist battles and killings of the last 1400 years and made fantastic power point images.
More info under the video
You noted the most egregious error — the failure to show the whole Roman Empire as Christian from 380 onward — but it also missed the spread of Christianity into and across central Asia by the Nestorians prior to the rise of Islam, the spread of Buddhism to East Asia (and among the Mongols among whom it for a while displaced both their native shamanism and Nestorian Christianity), and the Christianization of the Russian Far East, including Russian Alaska.
Indeed. They fail to note the spread of Christianity by Thomas in southeast India, as well, nor the predominance of the Hindu way on Bali, and Christianity on west Timor and elsewhere, or Judaism in concentrations throughout the Mediterranean, nor animism, nor Zoroastrianism - or just simple monotheism. The map lacks small scale sweeps and granularity.
Well I think the intent of the map was to show the spread of what whoever made it regarded as the five largest religions existing today. Of course, they missed the fact the Sikhism is larger than Judaism. (I think omitting animism is fair, since, it’s not like it really has a unified history or doctrine.)
It also shows Buddhism leaving India ahead of Islam moving into the parts of India where Buddhism was prevalent. That is totally inaccurate because Islam is the reason Buddhism nearly disappeared there.
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