[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Plethon

Yes, and? So what? His message was universal. The Semites in Palestine did not accept it, apart from the few...

And? Well Christ, the messenger, was a semite. It's not few. That the Palestinians didn't accept it doesn't change the fact that it came from another continent.

We have also Arabic numbers, paper (from China), different plant that we use as comestibles, which are not from Europe etc.

Ok but it is about a people's history, not mere food or numbers. Mose, Noah, Kirikou... it is hard to identify to them.

They were the chosen people. The past tense is important here. Some self-styled "Christians" today think that the Jews are, in some mysterious ways, still a chosen people. It is not Christianity, but a deviation therefrom.

Whatever. They used to. It is another foreign aspect of this religion.

However, it was, from, the very beginning, influenced by the Greek philosophy as well. So, the partly foreign source of the Christianity cannot be denied, indeed it can't.

Come on. You know very well what I mean by foreign (to Europe, that is).

It is impossible to reject those foreign elements if you want to be a Christian. By rejecting Christ, because he was a "Semite", what is left anyway? Of course, I am speaking from a Christian point of view. Not that I would ever, even if I could, try to impose Christianity on anybody. Because I am not a fundamentalist...

Christianity is more a cultural fact than anything else nowadays. I can very well pick up what suits me or not within Christianism.

And what does foreign mean? Something can be foreign carnally but nevertheless domestic spiritually in as much as its message is universal.

Universalism is so wrong. It doesn't "speak" to me at all.