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In reply to the discussion: Christians; how do you regard Hinduism? [View all]Bad Thoughts
(2,657 posts)Guilt and memory in history are topics I care about greatly, but really aren't being given appropriate airing in this thread.
You are right to point out the repression of plurality in Christian development, particularly as it relates to the structure of of the Christian deity. However, those were discussions within Christianity, and I don't think it is the moral equivalent of the dispossession of Native Americans. The Christianization of the Roman Empire was very much an internal matter to the empire: the state was erecting its own official religion, whose institutions Christianized politicians were able to take over. A Christian army didn't as. Of course, that dynamic holds only in the central areas of the empire: the Italic peninsula, Greek cities and Asia Minor.