And they didn't all fight us. A lot of them allied with us because they hated the other tribe, the enemy of my enemy is my friend

Exactly.

Wonder why they commit more crimes than any other group nowadays

To bring this back to religion... Those people would still be that way if not for devout Christians converting them.

Ever been to Saint Augustine?

There's a Catholic museum there, you'd like it even not being Catholic

Old artifacts from the first Christians here, paintings etc

When the Spanish first landed, the priest held mass on the beach there to thank God they made it across

Georgia right? I’ve never been. I think my parents have before.

Can't remember his name

But when he was having mass, the natives came out of the woods

And all mimicked what the congregation was doing, making sign of the cross, kneeling etc

So the priest actually used the Lord's Prayer to teach them an alphabet. They didn't have any system of writing before

He just matched Latin alphabet with the sounds of their spoken language

That’s awesome.

I knew they were taught reading/writing by the settlers. From my understanding it was mostly the clergy that did it.

Father Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales

That was his name

I went to it three years ago, it was pretty awesome

It's in Florida btw, not Georgia

Oh. My bad lol.

Gah I should know that too

This is on my bucket list

It's usually referred to in the west as a Buddhist pagoda

Yeah it looks like it.

But it's well known in China for what it really is

Old catholic place?

It faces east. Buddhist and Taoist temples only face north or south

I know Christianity spread to the east.

Interesting.

Actually it's Nestorian

Not familiar with that term.

There's a painting of the nativity on the walls inside

I've been to two Buddhist temples. They don't have nativity scenes.

Yeah. Wouldn’t make sense to have one.

Nestorians believed that there was a distinction between the human nature and divine nature of Jesus

Nestorius who came up with the idea was the Patriarch of Constantinople in the 5th century

So it was deemed heresy, and his followers moved eastward, as far as China, and built the church in the photo in 640 AD

Oh that’s cool.

The Tang Dynasty was cool with Christianity, but later dynasties persecuted it severely