If East Asian countries did not persecute Nestorian Christians in the Middle Ages do you think Asian countries will be better off..
If East Asian countries did not persecute Nestorian Christians in the Middle Ages do you think Asian countries will be better off..
Of course they'd be better of, they'd all be Christian.If East Asian countries did not persecute Nestorian Christians in the Middle Ages do you think Asian countries will be better off..
Well, yes, because they didn't persecute people for their religion. *Knows nothing about Nestorian Christianity* That's generally a Good Thing.
I don't think persecution of the Nestorian Christians was all that common.
In China, for example, they made relatively few converts among Han Chinese but a whole lot among the minorities (Turks, Mongols, etc), so it was always seen as foreign. It eventually died out, IIRC.
Tamerlane did kill an ungodly number of eastern Christians--that's why they're mostly in northern Iraq now because his horsemen couldn't get into the mountains. But that's not the East Asians' fault.
If East Asian countries did not persecute Nestorian Christians in the Middle Ages do you think Asian countries will be better off..
I don't think the presence of Nestorians would have impacted East Asia much at all. What specifically about them do you think they would have improved them?
East Asia, meaning mainly China, did go through several periods where Nestorians were promoted or punished. It has less to do with them being Christian as simply being of foreign origin. Usually it was during a time where Buddhists or Taoists became dominant at court and wanted to eliminate the other as a rival, and the Nestorians simply got mixed in with the other. However, the Nestorians were never a major faction in East Asia and their impact was limited.
Besides Tamerlane, the arrival of the Seljuks also devastated the Nestorian communities in the Middle East.
I never new the seljuks slaugthered nestorian christians on mass like tamerlane did.
I've never heard of that before either.
Perhaps BlackFox could cite a source?
I know the Seljuk conquest of Anatolia led to its Islamization, but there weren't any Nestorians living there to my knowledge.
East Asians didn't persecute the Nestorians, it was Tamerlane who destroyed most of the Nestorian communities.
Of course they'd be better of, they'd all be Christian.![]()
I think that's a bit unfair.
This is after all the same guy who made a scenario with a plague that for the most part hit the Christian areas of the Philippines more than the Muslim parts.
But I'm sorry for going off topic.
I am not talking about the japanese persecution of christians..Of course, to prevent this, Japan would have to not close itself off from the world, a scenario discussed elsewhere.