fubarobfusco comments on Rational Evangelism - Less Wrong

9 Post author: aarongertler 26 February 2014 06:00AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (150)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 26 February 2014 11:30:11PM 0 points [-]

This is why Christianity is relatively unsuccessful in parts of the world that aren't directly or indirectly descended from the Roman empire (India, Japan, etc.).

One counterexample is South Korea, which is about 30% Christian, and where Christianity seems to have spread largely peacefully.

Comment author: Nornagest 26 February 2014 11:44:59PM *  2 points [-]

Christianity's fairly common in sub-Saharan Africa, too, which did get colonized by European powers but which I think is fair to call culturally independent of Rome if India is. Conversely, North Africa was under the direct jurisdiction of the Roman Empire for a lot of its history, and it's now overwhelmingly Muslim (though small Christian minorities still exist; e.g. the Egyptian Copts).