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They are a Christian nation. All the while the Soviets were blustering, I never feared because they never dressed up their children in suicide vests and never worshipped death. (Also, the Soviet Union was led by elderly men more concerned with their falling arches and aching hemorrhoids than conquering the world.)
In my book, if nowhere else, a Christian nation is part of western culture.
Yes, it’s true, they are a Christian nation, but they are an Eastern Orthodox Christian nation. The traditional concept of a divide between “Eastern” and “Western” culture started over the divide between the Eastern and Western church. Of course, that divide was later accentuated by the presence of Muslims, and the various Indian and East Asian religions.
Take a look into the theology of Eastern Orthodoxy. It is fascinating, but it’s also a lot more alien to western thought than I ever imagined it could be. I think if I spent the rest of my life living in an Eastern Orthodox country and attended their churches daily, I still don’t think I could really put myself in their mindset; I have a mostly* western mind.
*And I say “mostly” because I’m an American Indian and there are some cultural differences between me and most Americans (though I do come from a tribe that took to Christianity quickly and enthusiastically).