[The_Reader_David]

Your contempt is misplaced, and it is apparently you who are ignorant of history: a common enough failing in America where even the history of Orthodox Church is little known, and the separated churches of the East, the Monophysites and the Nestorians are remembered if at all only as vague names of obscure doctrinal tendancies.

Yes the Mongols are now overwhelmingly Buddhist, but the post you were replying to was a review of history. A fair portion of the Mongols in the time of Genghis Khan and his immediate successors were Nestorian Christians (converted by missionaries from what is now Iraq). Although Kublai Khan was himself a Buddhist, one of his wives was a Christian, and he sent a Christian monk to Europe in an unsuccessful attempt to secure an alliance against the Muslims.

China had thriving Nestorian monasteries for centuries until, I forget which Emperor launched a persecution which forced conversion to Buddhism.

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...it is apparently you who are ignorant of history

Your gratuitous assertion.

America where even the history of Orthodox Church is little known, and the separated churches of the East, the Monophysites and the Nestorians are remembered if at all only as vague names of obscure doctrinal tendancies.

1. What does that have to do with anything?
2. I apologize for America's apparent lack of concern for the legends of failed empires.

Yes the Mongols are now overwhelmingly Buddhist, but the post you were replying to was a review of history. A fair portion of the Mongols in the time of Genghis Khan and his immediate successors were Nestorian Christians

Interesting vague assertion, but what, exactly, is "a fair portion".

Although Kublai Khan was himself a Buddhist, one of his wives was a Christian, and he sent a Christian monk to Europe in an unsuccessful attempt to secure an alliance against the Muslims.

ROTFLMAO! I guess that proves that the Mongols were Christians in some majority. You're killing me, man!

China had thriving Nestorian monasteries for centuries until, I forget which Emperor launched a persecution which forced conversion to Buddhism.

Another vague non sequitur. Mongols were not Chinese. They conquered China and formed the Yuan Dynasty, but were overthrown by the Ming. They were never accepted by the Chinese, so what does it matter that there were a few Christian monasteries in China. What good does it do for you to know little snippets of history if you lack the necessary cognitive skills to make any sense of them. And while you are at talking down to folks from your feigned educational superiority, you might learn to spell. It could help the illusion, but your posts might not be so funny.