What was so appealing about Christianity to indigenous people who had never heard of it before encountering missionaries? People who already had systems of worship and dogma?
I was watching Scorsese's latest shitty movie and couldn't believe there were over 100,000 Japanese Christians in the 17th fucking century
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I found the Christians in that movie baffling as well. What do they get out Christianity? The answer is that it's some kind of cognitive glitch. It's not a matter of theology or logic, it's something in our mind that can go wrong under specific circumstances but is beneficial most of the time.
You could ask why the fuck someone would become a cathar too.
>The idea of two Gods or principles, one being good and the other evil, was central to Cathar beliefs. The good God was the God of the New Testament and the creator of the spiritual realm, contrasted with the evil Old Testament God—the creator of the physical world whom many Cathars, and particularly their persecutors, identified as Satan.
fascinating tho
Christianity is based on logic, it logically """"works"""" and is easy to formulate logical apologies for.
It's just a variant of gnosticism.
Gee I wonder why a religion about love, forgiveness and eternal bliss after death is more appealing than being sacrificed to your old gods in order to appease them so they don't destroy the world.
Christians were powerful and wealthy people, and people generally tend to believe what the powerful and rich people say. Or in other words, you would rather listen to a missionary that comes from a global, highly developed empire, than let's say a homeless person on the streets preaching about things while having 0 followers. It's kind of self-evident that the Christians really have God on their side, because how else did they become so rich and powerful?
Māori were interested in Christianity because it was their first encounter with writing and the stories were new, but it took several decades for significant numbers of conversions.
>Gee I wonder why a religion about love, forgiveness and eternal bliss after death is more appealing than being sacrificed to your old gods in order to appease them so they don't destroy the world.
I'm not specifically talking about Mesoamericans. I never mentioned them.
>Christians were powerful and wealthy people
religious elites are generally powerful and wealthy people, this wouldn't have been a new phenomenon
> you would rather listen to a missionary that comes from a global, highly developed empire, than let's say a homeless person on the streets preaching about things while having 0 followers
let's say, a man of prestige with the support of the incumbent state government and backed by a thousand years of tradition. homeless person on the streets?....... what
>It's kind of self-evident that the Christians really have God on their side, because how else did they become so rich and powerful?
early missionaries were neither rich nor powerful.