Christianity

Christianity and its diffusion

Statistics can not show an exact number, they are much approximated though; religions in the world do not usually try to show a statistic, and every religion has adifferent way to count its members (like in Roman Catholic Church: people are just a member if they are baptized). Approximations inform that Christianity (catholic, orthodox, protestant, and others)count with a 33% of people in the whole world, being the greatest religion.

Branches of Christianity (Roman Catholic, Protestant, etc) have different beliefs and different histories, but the base isthe same: Christ; which indicates that Christianity is a Monotheistic religion; and depending on every one’s choice it might be a Hierarchical religion (for example The Pope for Roman Catholics) orautonomous religion (if people decide not to follow a central authority), normally this decision comes from the family’s tradition and it remains depending on the birth rate or the death rate.

I amfrom Colombia (localized in the North of South America); I was born within a Catholic family whose customs (like other catholic family) come from the bible: To go to the church every Sunday, to pray,to be thankful, not to work on religious holidays, among others; theses customs have been present generation through generation just like the language and the taboos, that usually involve sexualityand unnecessary pleasures (like when a catholic priest has sexual relations) what we call sins.

The diffusion of Christianity since the very beginning can be described in one word: Migration. AfterJesus’ death, apostles kept on teaching his thoughts in Jerusalem and the non-Jews began adapting theses costumes. Peter (apostle) travelled to Rome where he created the first occidental Christiancommunity. The Greek language was very important because Christianity travelled to many places that shared the Greek language and the Greek culture, mostly. The apostles went to very remote parts in the...