Friday, March 9, 2012

the roman legacy: christianity

jesus christ
a considerable portion of people are following christianity—its tradition and belief that jesus christ is the son of god, god having become human and the savior of humanity; from which the foundation of rome about christ’s teachings paved way for people with something to depend and believe in.  it was quite unusual in fact that I was raised in that understanding as a roman catholic with a fixed background not to ask its root or attempt to question with what I have seen or known.

even though, in search of formal conception, I arrive with sam pascoe which he states that, “christianity started out in palestine as a fellowship; it moved to greece and became a philosophy; it moved to italy and became an institution; it moved to europe and became a culture; and, it came to america and became an enterprise.

roman expansion
quite a few interesting enquiries spin my mind about the formation of its humble fellowship to its general practice until I pull in a map, which denotes history tells us that roman rule extent their empire and reached jerusalem where jesus was born.

roman empire
rome back then was viewed as one of the earliest civilization where success depended on military conquest, commercial predominance, as well as selective assimilation of neighboring civilizations.  right after the collapse of the roman empire in 190AD, the vatican state precedes early christians and adherents around the globe and turned christianity as one of its founding legacy which led to colonization and missionary.

buddha
if we attempt to examine, given that buddhism started in the 6th century BCE and with christianity only began 2,000 years ago, was there a possibility that our religion would turned buddhism if rome continued to expand east and reached mainland china?  with the vatican’s appeal to christ’s sponsorship for his divinity, will rome also promote siddhartha gautama or buddha in any case—if rome found buddha a bit earlier than christ?  can’t rome endorse their own god and they were easily captured by any man miles away?

it is not important if a man adopt religious virtues and following religious customs at this point.  It is central to have faith and belief of what you have learned is right or wrong as a human being.

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