Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.
Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.