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Posted by Tiglath (Guest) davidchibo@hotmail.com - Friday, September 17 2004, 18:15:26 (CEST)
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Paul Younan wrote:
>>...About 420 an alarmed Zoroastrian high priest came before Yazdegerd to complain that Christian evangelism was inducing mass apostasy from the state religion.

.......Paul a very biased Christin missionary is writing here. Read between his lines. There was clearly peace and religous toleration between all the religions in the Persian Empire.
What other reason could there be for alarm by the Zoroastrian high priest if not beause some Persians were being forced or co-erced into a religion they had no intention of joining.
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>It would seem that people were leaving the State Religion of their own accord, due to Christian "evangelism". That is a far cry from the tactics used in the Western Church.

.....If that's your objective reading of that quote then I apologise but your very wrong. King Yazdegred was in fact so tolerant of Christianity that more than one Christian writers have written about him.

"In 399, a more tolerant Persian king, Yezdegerd I, came to the throne and the Romans again sought peace by sending an embassy seeking a treaty. An edict of toleration was signed in 409 giving toleration to Christians in the Persian Empire.."

By Foot to China
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Mission of The Church of the East, to 1400, John M. L. Young
Chairman - Japan Presbyterian Mission and Missionary of Mission to the World of the Presbyterian Church in America

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>Got any examples of those in the Eastern Church....I mean, forced conversions? "Raping into Christianity" as Parhad would say?
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>C'MON Khizma, even Parhad has dropped this and admitted that the Church of the East did not do the same things as the Western Church did because it did not have the sanction of the state or an army behind it, ever.

.........It was not for lack of trying that it didn't and you know it. you've read the book Paul. Just what do you think Pax Mongolicca was?

Why would the church of the East consecrate Mar Yaballaha III - a Mongolian - who ruled the Church of the East from 1281 until his death in 1318?

It was because they wanted to co-opt one of the most bloodthirsty armies the world has ever seen. The Mongolians for Ashur's sake. Are you seriously telling me that the Church of the east control of the Mongolian hordes
would've been a good thing? Are you seriously telling me that our idiot Mar Ignoramus' would not have forced the entire east to accept their unique brand of Christianty?

C'mon Paul.

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Give Dean a 10 count ref.... Tiglath - Friday, September 17 2004, 14:22:15 (CEST)
- Poster's Note Tiglath - 09/17 14:38
  - heheheheheeh Parhad - 09/17 14:45
    - Christianity MAKES Thugs Parhad - 09/17 14:56
- C'MON, Khizmie! Paul Younan - 09/17 17:09
  - Re: C'MON, Khizmie! Tiglath - 09/17 18:22
    - Re: C'MON, Khizmie! Paul Younan - 09/17 19:02
      - Hang on... Tiglath - 09/18 06:48
        Re: Hang on... Paul Younan - 09/20 22:37
- Re: Give Dean a 10 count ref.... Paul Younan - 09/17 17:23
  - Re: Give Dean a 10 count ref.... Tiglath - 09/17 18:15
    - Re: Give Dean a 10 count ref.... Paul Younan - 09/17 19:08
    - Non-Assyrian Patriarchs Paul Younan - 09/17 19:33
- Not even close. Dean - 09/17 21:05
  - Closer than you think... Jeff - 09/18 04:35
  - Re: Not even close. Tiglath - 09/18 08:08
    - Re: Not even close. Paul Younan - 09/20 22:43
      - heheheheheh Parhad - 09/20 23:23
        Could haves don't count Paul Younan - 09/20 23:32
    - Re: Not even close. Dean - 09/21 00:50

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