what were main causes of the spread of christianity?
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This is far too complicated to just get down in a few words.\nBasically it was a matter of social structure and control.\nYou might check out the following sites:
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I know that the pagan festivals that existed before the Christian holidays were used to encourage pagans to convert to Christianity. The early Roman Catholic leaders decided that if they used a pre-existing festival and incorporated new Christian concepts to it, they would have a greater chance of increasing the size of the flock. The dates of those festivals were acceptable (close enough), and as time went on, the pagan traditions went out and the holidays became completely Christian.
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The Crusades. There were seven of them sponsored by various Kings and Popes. \n\nChow!!
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The biggest problem facing the christian church as it expanded into northern and western Europe was paganism, which is basically about fertility - a pretty natural obsession of a substistence society.   The trick they used was to divide and conquer the religion itself.   \n\nSome things were, literally, demonised, made into the enemy.   The god of fertility, Pan, became Satan, which was an astute move since christianity was and is really antagonistic towards overly liberal shagging.   To this day Europeans and those they have influenced are still pretty hung up about sex as a result.   IMHO.\n\nBut complete opposition to the entire religion would not have worked.   So other things were not demonised, they were co-opted.   This was the trick with the festivals.   Christmas celebrated the passing of the winter solstice and promised that spring was not far off - fertility again - the evergreen tree is a symbol of life getting through the bad times.   So the church rebranded it as Jesus' birthday, and managed to keep the newly converted pagans onside.   Harvest festival too (god's abundent goodness etc).   As for Easter - spring? resurrection? eggs? bunnies?  need I say more?\n\nThe church hasn't much of an idea of when Jesus was born, but it doesn't really care - Christmas is convenient.   Easter is a bit easier, because Jesus' death was reported to be around the time of the Jewish Passover festival, so you can sort of place it around the time of the pagan bunny stuff - a natural fit.
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no it was christians who had crusades who killed indiscrimitaly and took their land who really started with terroism. the cathlic church burning and torturing people to convert have killed more people than any muslim nation. I am cathlic so I know our history.
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Christianity is the part of the world which has historically been influenced primarily by self-defined Christians.
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The Roman empire was in decline, weakening from within and being assailed by invaders. Nero (and others) decided to blame Christians for the decline (and eventual collapse) of the Roman empire because they didn't bow to the state religion (which was very tolerant of other religions, as long as you worshipped Caesar along with whatever other gods you had).
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Well, let's start with Christianity. Before Jesus died on the cross, he said to Peter, "On you I will build my church." So Peter essentially became the first Pope of the Catholic church, and from then on the "first church" continued to appoint popes. Then comes Martin Luther into the picture. He saw some real problems in the Catholic church that he wanted changed. He demanded change, but was excommunicated instead. Still, he had followers. They became the Lutheran church. And so they were the first to "protest" the Catholic church, thereby becoming "protestants." Then there were the Catholics in England. The king didn't like the fact that he could not divorce, so he broke away from the church too and made his own, the Anglican church. \n\nSo to keep it short and sweet. Different religions form when a group in one religion breaks away from the original and it's like a domino effect and they just evolved into what you see today: the Episcopalians, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Baptists, the Pentecostals, etc.
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There are quite a few facts in this book of fiction. The Catholic church definitely carried on a campaign against the old pagan folk beliefs. This was done over a period of several centuries from the time that Constantine adopted Christianity through the campaigns against witches (which continued under protestants in the Salem witch trials). The fourth and fifith centuries correspond to the time when orthodox Christianity (the Catholic church) was trying to fight both the Arians of Spain, but also the pagans of northern Europe and Germany. The number of people killed during these pogroms ishard to determine accurately.
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Corruption - Christian sprang up as the religion on o fthe poor, rich people 'sanitized it' to control the poor with things such as it is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for the rich to enter the kingdom of god.  Thereby, ensuring the poor has some justification or maybe some light at the end of the tunnel of poverty.
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the guy above me dosent know crap. One affect was that the christians had a desire for a higher standard of life when they saw how sophiticated the muslims were such as nice cities. It also lead to the fall of constantinople when the crusaders sacked the city on the way. The fall of constantinople lead to the collapse of the eastern roman empire. This gave the muslims an even stronger hold on Juresalem because the europeans lost so many men
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Well, after Constantine conquered Rome, he legalized Christianity.  You could make the case that he's directly responsible for the Dark Ages, which began a little over a century later, a thousand years of superstition, ignorance, and repression of the arts and sciences, under religious rule.   More like de-civilzation and cultural devolvement.
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According to more recent research1 there seems to have been two movements of people in 1212 in France and Germany. The similarities of the two allowed later chroniclers to lump them together as a single tale.\n\nIn the first movement Nicholas, a German shepherd, led a group across the Alps and into Italy in the early spring of 1212. About 7,000 arrived in Genoa in late August. However, their plans didn't bear fruit when the waters failed to part as promised and the band broke up. Some left for home, others may have gone to Rome, while still others may have traveled down the Rhone to Marseille where they were probably sold into slavery. Few returned home and none reached the Holy Land.\n\nThe second movement was led by a "shepherd boy"2 named Stephen de Cloyes near the village of Châteaudun who claimed in June that he bore a letter for the king of France from Jesus. Attracting a crowd of over 30,000 he went to Saint-Denis where he was seen to work miracles. On the orders of Philip II, on the advice of the University of Paris, the crowd was sent home, and most of them went. None of the contemporary sources mentions plans of the crowd to go to Jerusalem.\nThe Children's Crusade, by Gustav Dore\nEnlarge\nThe Children's Crusade, by Gustav Dore\n\nLater chroniclers embellished these events. Recent research suggests the participants were not children, at least not the very young. In the early 1200s, bands of wandering poor started cropping up throughout Europe. These were people displaced by economic changes at the time which forced many poor peasants in northern France and Germany to sell their land. These bands were referred to as pueri (Latin for "boys") in a condescending manner, in much the same way that people from rural areas in the United States are called "country boys."\n\nIn 1212, a young French puer named Stephen and a German puer named Nicholas separately began claiming that they had each had similar visions of Jesus. This resulted in these bands of roving poor being united into a religious protest movement which transformed this forced wandering into a religious journey. The pueri marched, following the Cross and associating themselves with Jesus's biblical journey. This, however, was not a prelude to a holy war.\n\nThirty years later, chroniclers read the accounts of these processions and translated pueri as "children" without understanding the usage. So, the Children's Crusade was born. The resulting story illustrates how ingrained the concept of Crusading was in the people of that time— the chroniclers assumed that the pueri must have been Crusaders, in their innocence returning to the foundations of crusading characteristic of Peter the Hermit, and meeting the same sort of tragic fate.
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God, Gold and Glory sum up the Age of Discovery which begins in the 15th!!!! Century  (seriously.  Remember Christopher Columbus? The guy that set out for Asia but actually only made it to the West Indies? During the 15th Century?)\n\nGod - to spread Christianity to what they believed were 'pagan' nations of Muslims, \nGold - they wanted money from silk and spice trades and \nGlory - they wanted to become famous.
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1.) The Japanese Shogun, who led from Edo (now Tokyo), wanted European trade to flow through Edo. Europeans wanted to trade through Kyushu (the southernmost island). Additionally, China rejected his overtures for additional trade. The Shogun then moved to restrict trade in his favor (remember, at this point, Japan was a feudal state).\n\n2.) Christianity was starting to flourish in parts of Japan, and the Shogun began to get worried. Christianity was seen as a destabilizing factor, so the Shogun moved to purge it from Japan, by restricting the religion, massacring Christians, expelling Europeans, and forcing subjects to register at temples.\n\nThe period of no contact was between 1641 and 1854, although the Chinese and Dutch were allowed limited contact at Nagasaki.
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maybe religions!!! most of the times it was the reason!
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The fact the christianity and other such religions have a particular point of origin proves that they aren't for real.\n\nWhy would god have made these people here and these people there, so the people there could tell the people here all about him?  Thats absurd.