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To: D-fendr

“I wouldn’t be the first to note that Calvinism and atheism rose in the West.”

So did Christianity!

No causation by correlation. A whole lot has risen in the West.


13 posted on 10/29/2011 11:31:22 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Persevero; D-fendr
Dfendr: “I wouldn’t be the first to note that Calvinism and atheism rose in the West.”

Persevero: So did Christianity!

Not really -- Christianity arose in the East, technically in Asia and for centuries, in fact arguably for most of the first millenium, the "action" was in the East. The Assyrian Church converted people as far as Mongolia, while the Marthomites were busy in Southern India etc.

Christianity is not a "Western religion"

20 posted on 10/30/2011 12:24:29 AM PDT by Cronos (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2787101/posts?page=58#58)
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