armenians being the first nation to accept christianity

[joint1]

A few day prior to the 90th anniversary of our ancestors being tortured,raped,killed burned and experiencing things that no other human should ever experience.
My story is that a G-7 hoping everyone knows what that means
I was talking about the subject and mentioned to that person that we were the first nation to accept christianity and he tells me NO! in my face.
I was so pissed off I said YES WE WERE! back in his/her face.
And the I replied back to him/her "I will bring that info in writing".
He says " Don't bother I won't believe you then as well".
So I want to share this story with everyone and tell you
that Evil is everywhere even back in 1915.
Don't let anyone ever hurt you.

[HyerThanYou]

A few day prior to the 90th anniversary of our ancestors being tortured,raped,killed burned and experiencing things that no other human should ever experience.
My story is that a G-7 hoping everyone knows what that means
I was talking about the subject and mentioned to that person that we were the first nation to accept christianity and he tells me NO! in my face.
I was so pissed off I said YES WE WERE! back in his/her face.
And the I replied back to him/her "I will bring that info in writing".
He says " Don't bother I won't believe you then as well".
So I want to share this story with everyone and tell you
that Evil is everywhere even back in 1915.
Don't let anyone ever hurt you.

its good you say armenia is the first nation...instead of saying Armenians were the first christians because we werent .

[bell-the-cat]

I was talking about the subject and mentioned to that person that we were the first nation to accept christianity and he tells me NO! in my face.
I was so pissed off I said YES WE WERE! back in his/her face.
And the I replied back to him/her "I will bring that info in writing".

Why do you think it is important for you to be saying that Armenia was the first nation to accept Christianity? The circumstances that caused it to come about are not ones that anyone should be particularly proud of. Armenia became, as you put it "the first nation to accept Christianity" because it was an oriental-style despotic state. Whatever the King decided was true (whether it was a sincere belief or just for political reasons) had to be true for everyone, under threat of death.

[Ashuri62]

Why do you think it is important for you to be saying that Armenia was the first nation to accept Christianity? The circumstances that caused it to come about are not ones that anyone should be particularly proud of. Armenia became, as you put it "the first nation to accept Christianity" because it was an oriental-style despotic state. Whatever the King decided was true (whether it was a sincere belief or just for political reasons) had to be true for everyone, under threat of death.

I think it is very important that Armenia was the first nation to accept Christianity. As for "whatever the King decided was true", thats how most civilizations at the time operated. Thats how the Holy Roman Empire came into bieng. Nothing wrong with that.

[TJ]

Why do you think it is important for you to be saying that Armenia was the first nation to accept Christianity? The circumstances that caused it to come about are not ones that anyone should be particularly proud of. Armenia became, as you put it "the first nation to accept Christianity" because it was an oriental-style despotic state. Whatever the King decided was true (whether it was a sincere belief or just for political reasons) had to be true for everyone, under threat of death.

And what states at that time had freedom of religion, pray tell.

[bell-the-cat]

And what states at that time had freedom of religion, pray tell.

The Roman Empire did, providing those religions did not overstep certain boundaries. And many non-Christian temples and institutions were allowed to operate even until as late as the rule of Justinian the Great in the middle of the 6th century.

In terms of a percentage of the overall population, the number of Christians in the Roman Empire at the start of the 4th century far exceeded that of Armenia. But, as soon as King Trdat announced his conversion to Christianity (probably done for political reasons), due to the despotic nature of Trdat's regime everyone else in Armenia had to be seen to do likewise. Armenia was not "the first nation to accept Christianity", it was the first nation to have Christianity enshrined as its state religion to the exclusion of all others.

[Baron Dants]

Armenia was not "the first nation to accept Christianity", it was the first nation to have Christianity enshrined as its state religion to the exclusion of all others.

We still win!

[o0tinerz0o]

Armenia was the first nation to except christianity as its sole and state religion. Simple as that. WHy is this important? Well simply because one third of the people living on this earth are christian, and almost all of the most important and powerful countries in the world are christian or have a substantial amount of christians in the population. Being the first official christian state is important to us, because it allows us to differienciate ourselves from our Muslim/Turkic neighbors. It also gives us leverage in europe, and makes it a lot easier for us to integrate into european affairs. Because of the fact we are indo-european and 99.98% of armenians are christian, we are not looked at suspiciously, especially these days, where terrorism is a international threat and muslims are under major scrutiny. Our church preserved our culture, during almost 2 millenia of invasions by turks, persians, arabs, mongols, and even communism. If we were muslim per say we would have been completely assimilated into either Iranian or Turkish society, either by choice or the sword. Being the first official christian state gave us a sense of pride and achievement, and being Christian itself saved our culture, and preserved a lot of if, not all granted, but a lot so that we are able to say today, I AM ARMENIAN MY CHUCH IS ARMENIAN ORTHODOX, MY SPOKEN LANGUAGE IS ARMENIAN. As it is now, this is how it always was, one race, one church, one language, hopefully united, God willing.

God Bless

[TomServo]

Good point.

Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish prime minister and jackass extrordinaire, labels the European Union as a "Christian Club."

[bell-the-cat]

Good point.

Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish prime minister and jackass extrordinaire, labels the European Union as a "Christian Club."

And it seems that wanabee jackass extrordinaire o0tinerz0o would agree with the label. The difference is that Erdogan, on this point, does not actually believe what he says.