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Posted by Azhi (Guest) - Tuesday, October 7 2003, 15:01:12 (EDT)
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Interesting post Farid.

For a long time I have been pondering over an interesting idea which came to me after cross referencing language (i.e., ethnicity) and religion to come up with common trends. I give you a few examples:


1. It appears that Catholicism and Romance language family (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian) are very close. As far as I know, all the countries with one of the Romance languages as their official language are Catholic.

2. As far as I know, all the Western European countries, with Germanic languages, are NOT Catholic. I think they chose to become Protestants to decrease the Roman Empire (i.e., foreign) influence. These countries include Germany, England, Norway,…

3. Slavic language family is associated with Orthodox denominations.


4. Scotland and Ireland, in Western Europe, chose to stay Catholic since they were occupied by the British (Protestant). They had to counter the British influence and domination.

5. Poland, a Slavic nation, chose to stay Catholic since they were occupied, on and off, by the Russians (Orthodox). Just like the Scots and the Irish, they had to counter the foreign (i.e., Russian) domination.

6. Iranians wanted to counter the Arab influence so they came up with the Shia sect.

7. Countries to the East of Iran remained Sunni since Iran was acting as a buffer zone against the Arab influence.


These are only a few examples, I think if one looks carefully there are many more examples of how religion has been used throughout the history.

What do you think?



farid wrote:
>...in a few clever, yet easy, steps...
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>Scholarshit tells us that cuneiform was in use up till the first century A.D. In Christ's day the language of the Arameans was spoken among Hebrews and Assyrians and had been for centuries...perhaps even Egyptians still and who knows who else, besides Arameans of course...it was the Lingua Franca of its day and had been for hundreds of years. Christianity came along...an offspring of Judaism and its adherents would naturally enough speak the language of its founder and used in its liturgy...the language of the Arameans, which most of them were speaking anyway and had been for ages.
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>In the following centuries missionaries took their positions all over the place, fucking people over in Aramaic...the language of the Arameans...the language used by Assyrians and Hebrews and others. As long as Christianity was enjoying a monoploy in trade I doubt any converts were too vocal about their great "Assyrian" roots. 700 years later Islam, another Jew-based religion, came thundering out of Arabia and beat the pants off of the Byzantine Romans and took what they'd hoped to. Naturally the Christians there were disappointed...though many of them would have found life hell under the Byzantines...Heresies don't you know.
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>As Islam took hold and then flourished, the resident Christians got more and more pissed. Jews might be taught to think Yahwe loved them best when he had people beat the shit out of them, but Christians were expecting a little more from their god of "Love", like maybe blinding Muslim cildren...or starving them to death, as they would finally get to see done some 1300 years later. But in the meantime they resented playing second-fiddle and in their increasing disgust at Islam's spreading influence and culture they sought ways to distinguish themselves...ways in which just being Christian wasn't enough.
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>Somewhere along the line some ancestor of Aprim's decided he must be Ashurbanipal's grandson...course he didn't know anything about Ashurbanipal...or much about anything, but when has that ever slowed an Aprim? All the artifacts...all the clay tablets with a long forgotten script engraved on them were still buried under tons of sand and mud. No one had seen anything but ruins and then mounds of dirt for a thousand and more years. The only mention of Assyrians came from that Jew history book where they were hardly given any credit for much that anyone...certainly any Christian, would want to be associated with.
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>Once the mounds were excavated however and the existence of the Assyrians confirmed historically...and with the removal of one masterpiece after another, with the attendant awe and clamor and interest this excited all over Europe and America...being associated with those ancient people with that glorious, if regretably, "cruel", civilization...who'd flourished when these detested A-rabs were still in tents and were now lording it over Yahwe's newest darlings...didn't seem such a bad thing after all. Especially if these Christians became doubly penitant that they'd ever come from such un-Christianly people...but there it was..."their" past had been glorious, if a bit bloody, but they were sorry as hell for it now, now that they'd seen the Jewish light and turned Christian...cross-hugging, Messianic crapping converts to the One True God. Sure they were glad to be rid of that pagan past...but..."ahh...would you all mind please leaving this country and giving it back to us...for we're "Assyrian" enough when it comes time to profit by it. Oh and incidentally...we Christians are the only real and true and DIRECT descendants of those old people...Muslims are all from Arabia...so get out of Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Iran and give it back to us"...who are nothing Assyrian but everything Christian...witness this bit of "miracle-making"....hallelujah and amen.



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