Posted on 01/04/2020 12:04:05 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Among the countries which the present war has brought to the attention of the world is Persia, a land with a historic past, but for centuries rarely heard of. Its very name has been changed to Iran, a name which means much to the historian and the ethnologist, but conveys little to the man in the street.
Few persons would connect Persia, or Iran, with Christian history, For centuries Persia has been a Moslem land, though of the "Shiite" sect, rather than "Sunnite " professed by most followers of the Prophet. In earlier ages it was the home of the faith of Zoroaster, perhaps the noblest of non-revealed religions, now preserved only by a small but influential group of Parsecs in India and by a still smaller number of "Guebers" in Iran itself. Christians number but a few thousands, almost all of non-Iranian stock.
Yet there was once a flourishing Persian Church, whose history forms a glorious page in the annals of Christianity. Both under the Sassanian monarchs of Iran and under the Caliphs of Bagdad, this Church could bear comparison with the Church of the Western World for extent, numbers, learning, and missionary zeal. It planted the banner of the Cross in lands as remote as Tartary and China to the east and India to the south. Now that this forgotten land is once more in the lime-light, it might be well to bring to light something about this forgotten Church.
Although the names of Cyrus and his successors are familiar to anyone with a knowledge of history, few know anything about the Sassanian Persian monarchs, who for centuries disputed with Rome the rule of the known world...
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It's my opinion that the Persians/Iranians haven't changed a whit.
Today, according to Google there are 79.9 MILLION of them.
thats 79,899999 million now.
At LEAST!
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