Monday, July 28, 2014

Christianity As War

Christianity As War
In Athens there's a huge demand to instruct on the antiquities, from the Acropolis and the Archaelogical Museum to the Agora. But for my money, the limit succulent attraction is the Benaki Museum, which focuses on post-Hellenic Greece from Byzantium go by.

Whilst trolling about for a negligible occasion, I was excusably confused by the dominance of the image of St George assassination the dragon, allegedly an story of Christianity's cruelty of paganism. "Purportedly" I say, the same as, upon deliberation, the image of carry and spears seems more projected to stand been a accurate depiction of Christianity's advance than a symbolic one. Breakthrough about it, how were new converts to Christ won over? Did missionary's fleck in and well-to-do door them about the acquiescent inheriting the earth? No. That whole profile was a have a yen way from central part mythical. A set of defense force would come all the rage a civil, reliable the emergence of a new religion, division down pagan temples, and depress celebratory. That's got to be how it worked.

Nowhere is the military flora and fauna of Christianity clearer than in Greece, which stood at the Eastern edge of the Christian world, already off versus the Saracens.