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Myth Number One: Assyrians all coverted to Christianity.

This was supposedly accomplished by Abgar converting us all because Jesus sent him a letter that cured him...but that's a known bit of nonsense...besides which, as we've shown, Abgar would have converted the Assyrians to Judaism since during his lifetime there were no Christians and Jesus was a faithful Jew.

There were, no doubt, individuals experimenting with various religions, but to suppose that an entire people with a rich culture and heritage as the Assyrians would have willingly thrown it all away for a Jewish religion, or ANY religion, is absurd.

More than likely the majority were converted through force applied by the Romans....as Byzantium, after being converted to Christianity by Constantine, fought for a few centuries against the Persians in BetNahrain. Following their usual style, and from what we know for a fact that Christian rulers elsewhere did to "convert" people, we know force and murder were used...especially where entire cultures were converted.

Similarly with Africans, Aztec, the Maya, Incas and Native Americans who all KNOW their ancestors fought Christianity with every fiber of their being...whose orphans were later 'raised" Christian by those who murdered their parenta..it is definitely possible for people, people who KNOW their ancestors never converted willingly, to nonetheless remain faithful to the religion of those who raped their ancestors..if all of these people believe in Jesus INSPITE of how his religion was shoved up their arses...it's likely the same is true with our Christians who, even if they had the evidence before them that Romans forced this religion on their ancestors, would continue praying and bowing down before it no matter what.

Christianity wasn't "embraced" by those who first heard of it...not even many Jews were interested...but after a few decades of propaganda and scaring the crap out of toddlers while tempting them with eternal life..it has been possible to BUY the faith and loyalty of these people...but it is a hollow purchase....look at them.

Myth Number Two:

Muslims killed Christians because they were Christians...or forcibly converted them and that's the reason there are so few of them left.

Despite preposterous claims from the church, there is no evidence anywhere of Muslims killing Christians just because they were Christians...rather they were killed whenever they REBELLED against their Muslim rulers or met in battle...a common enough practise among any number of ancient rulers and countries...neither were they ever killed or abused for their Assyrian ancestry...but in both cases...with their Christian faith and their claims of Assyrian ancestry it was what people DID in the name of either that brought them trouble...mostly as a result of preaching sedition as their RIGHT and duty...this would get anyone in trouble in any country for it is illegal in all of them.

The reason Christian populatins dwindled is due to the peculiarities of their own faith...the disdain and avoidance of marriage and children...the encouragement to celibacy and monasticism...the fear and loathing of Woman for her "evil" temptations etc. Additionally the majority converted to Islam...most likely to avoid the added tax...though it was very fairly and lightly applied...and to gain some advantage by sharing the religion of the ruling class of Muslims.

It was 700 years after Christianity came to Betnahrain that the Muslims came...yet in those 700 years we brag that our missionaries went to China, Japan and India spreading the message of Jesus...yet in all that time, before Muslims could be blamed for interferring...hardly any converts were won in China, Japan or India...in fact, without an army at its back Christianity NEVER appealed to large groups and settled people...for 700 years the Christians in BetNahrain were unopposed, even tolerated by the Sassanians....and yet they were unable to convert everyone.

Myth Number Three

Christianity saved Assyrians:

Christianity saved CHRISTIANS...not Assyrians. We can see now when we talk to these people about the glories of the ancient Assyrians that they are not impressed..on the contrary they think of their own ancestors as murderers and worse...therefore it is doubtful that they felt any better about them when they converted,,,from what they say today we can conclude that the first converts were eager to deny and RUN from everything Assyrian....everything that was TRULY Assyrian.

Today we have Christian Iraqis and Christian Persians and Christian Syrians and Christian Lebanese and Christian Turks....but none of them are Assyrian,,,no one even knows what that was or means. Only one thing is certain...that by converting away so willingly from what was the ONE thing, above language and country, that MADE a person what he or she was...namely religion, that those who converted to Christianity gave away the core and essence of whatever it was that being Assyrian meant and had meant for a couple of thousand years.



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