[philosofy123]

"As you know, the Chinese, the Japanese( I have personally experienced their cruelty but have already forgiven them )or the Indians have not always been peaceful people."

I don't know that. Please explain. Actually, it is easy to see the number of countries invaded by these theee countries, in comparison with the number of countries invaded by England, Spain France, the U.S., Portugal, Belgium, and even Italy. The west cannot be defended as pro-peace, specially during last century. Mind you, the last century had more real Christian believers than we have today. At one time the West was occupying most of the earth! I do believe, however, that the West has improved the life of most, if not all these countries that they occupied.

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I'm sorry I can't give a tour deforce on Chinese and Japanese history over the centuries, or millinia on this thread, but I think that you are probably aware of all the wars that took place in China and Japan needed to define the present boundaries or unifications of those countries. One of the reasons that China has not been active in taking over countries in the last 2 centuries is the lack of an effective and strong navy and the corruption from within the country. The same was true for Japan, until of course
the 20th century, when Japan developed a very strong navy. Thus, I contend that it was not because these countries were non Christian that they have not been very active in taking over other countries, but because they were simply not capable of doing so. Indeed, if the USA was founded based on the muslim religion, or any other religion, including no religion at all, and not on Christianity, it would probably be wiping out civilizations with its nuclear weapons after 9.11.01. Afterall, one of the important teaching of Christ is to love neighbors as much as oneself.