{"id":14901,"date":"2016-04-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/04\/20\/how-christianity-and-islam-took-over-the-world-in-90-seconds\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:00:00","slug":"how-christianity-and-islam-took-over-the-world-in-90-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/04\/20\/how-christianity-and-islam-took-over-the-world-in-90-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"How Christianity and Islam Took Over the World, in 90 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/how-christianity-and-islam-took-over-the-world-in-90-seconds-a6986196.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, April 17, 2016 (Independent): This [somewhat inaccurate] video depicts the growth and spread of the world&#8217;s two largest religions over a span of 2,000 years. Represented in white and green, respectively, Christianity and Islam spring up from obscurity in the Middle East to morph into globe-spanning juggernauts.<\/p>\n<p>It was produced last year by the Western Conservatory of the Arts and Sciences, a rather grandiosely named Christian ministry based in Tennessee, as an accompaniment to a supposedly historically accurate map that depicts the &#8220;Spread of the Gospel.&#8221; A note on the ministry&#8217;s website cites biblical scripture, pitching the map as a &#8220;beautiful visual reminder that &#8216;the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world &#8230; is bearing fruit and increasing.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Real historians will doubtless find plenty to quibble about with the broad sweep of the canvas that this video represents. And, to be sure, this ministry doesn&#8217;t exactly have an objective approach to the history of Islam. And India, which represents almost a sixth of humanity, is hardly a Christian nation (as it appears in the last frame of the map). Rather it is majority-Hindu and has a far greater number of Muslims than Christians within its borders.<\/p>\n<p>View video at &#8220;source&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED KINGDOM, April 17, 2016 (Independent): This [somewhat inaccurate] video depicts the growth and spread of the world&#8217;s two,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}