Do you realize that America is a nation that is still too young to host its own, personal, nationally-tied religious history (as in the rise of Hinduism in India)? It STARTED a Protestant nation and IS a Protestant nation. Europe was the birthplace of Protestantism and many small cultural religions, generally subtitled Paganism in the modern day. At most, America was a birthplace of subsects of Protestantism, in the same way that all of Europe was once the home of many subsects of my previously-referred-to definition of Paganism. The Danes were the first true (aka as-we-imagined-them) vikings, and Germany itself is a mere offshoot of what we now know as Denmark. The entirety of such countries was the start of several religious wars amongst various monarchies that still exist today - just look at the British Empire. At the southern portion of Europe, at the juxtaposition with Africa and the base of western Asia, Christianity in its entirety was founded. The famous and multifaceted countries, and, by proxy, religions, of both the Romans and Greeks started and ended there. On this side of Asia, both Muslim countries and entire races trace their roots back to YHWH in the same manner with which the multi-millennial world of Israel, and with it, the Jewish religion, does. Further east and north, the Slovakians have endured both a specific residence, a certain culture, and certain ties to Christian Orthodoxy that lay claim to older traditions than even the Catholic church. In Africa, tribal communities have stood watch over both the land and the spirits believed to dwell in it, not unlike the Native Americans, many of whom were destroyed from the face of the earth only relatively recently in world history since it has been recorded. (Note: with them, much of the recognized existence of, and perpetuation of, their religious, ethnic, and spacially-located cultures died with them). This is not to even begin to touch on the complexities of the Aboriginal cultures or religion; much of it is too foreign for the average Christian American mind to comprehend without instantly damning and never giving a second thought, though further investigation into such works is far from unreasonable. Both South America and India hold (or held) religious communities so old that they are inseparable from the first of humanitys mathematical discoveries, and the religions are as diverse as the impact that their traditions, which still echo thousands of years later in the mind of all who come into contact with them. Buddhism was originally an offshoot from Hinduism; the regions which recognize Buddhism as a legitimate religious foundation today are those both-including-and-east-of India as a whole, though it is not always tolerated. Some Hindus still find Buddhism as a key violation of Hinduisms precepts, disavowing it as little more than an illegitimate sect. In other nations further still east in Asia, state-enforced holds on religious expression in modern times choke out much of the discussion of a religion, *unless it is Buddhism*! Certainly, the religious tones of the far east are among both the most inter-relatable and the most diametrically opposed in certain lights, fit for the world from which the birthplace of Yin and Yang is said to originate. Overall, the US has barely any insight into God to go along with their culture. If you think youre on the right side and the rest of the world is damned against ye, please: reconsider your thought.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:41:46 +0000
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