Some personal observations here Put a summary of it into the Roots of Christianity perhaps a whole subsection thereof If the Zoroastrianism part is included then so must the Egyptian especially since the Hebrews were long associated with Egypt back to the Hyksos invasion It would be POV to disclude this factor considering the trail of monotheism left by Akhenaten and adopted by the Hebrews I myself don t know much about Zoroaster but I certainly recognise much of the Egyptian issue and I m more of a casual researcher It seems to me that Zoroastrian elements are tied to the Persian background but it would be prejudiced to say that the Egyptians have no basis when they long dominated Palestine The Greek Pharaoh himself patroned the Septuagint in Alexandria I find the bigotry towards an Egyptian root of Christianity to be entirely unfounded when so much of Egyptian culture was adopted by all peoples in a certain radius outwards Perhaps this lies in traditional ideas about race that the Hamites of Africa have not contributed anything and that the Persians supposedly were are White or considered Japhethic as opposed to the Semites Seriously this Noahidic classification thing is ridiculous because these Afro Asiatic people are undoubtedly very much alike and most uninvolved observers would say they are less White than the Greeks and Romans I consider Persians to be Semites because they are Asian in this context Give it as much credence as the Persian foundations and you will make this NPOV I seriously suggest expounding upon both roots of Christianity and also delineating the Greek root which provided Roman impetus for adoption and proliferation For instance if the Greeks hadn t patroned that religious culture as their relation to Philistines Rome would have dismissed it as everything else in their cultural relationship with Greece Rome even rebuilt Greek Philistia as Palestine and during the Catholic Crusades it became the Kingdom of Jerusalem Christianity has so many dimensions that it would be haughty to overlook its far ranging origins which even has pagan influences from Europe and Buddhist ties in Southwest Asia I myself used to be atheist or Odinist not wanting to deal with what I percieved to be other peoples culture and now I look in wonder at the historical background of the Sea Peoples and the subsequent Graeco Roman expansion in the Mediterranean Sea There are European roots throughout the region now considered Islamic or Arab but if we don t provide the means for people to see it we will forget it as much as the terrible destruction of the Library of Alexandria Just think of the term Indo European and you will understand Alexander the Great s empire See the connection between the European fylfot and Indian swastika or the Cross and the Ankh Please don t demolish this magnificent research for it has been a great boon in my life to know these things I am only stating things as I commonly have studied and heard of them I do not propose to limit and debar other positions on this issue therefore I am not endorsing POV The various sources I have seen via Google search appear legitimate and or sometimes biased as anything but it is not my position to judge the appropriateness of the topic We are not to cast a POV on the issue in favour or against just to deliver as any messenger does The existing article on the History of Christianity provides the Persian background but does not give adequate coverage of the Egyptian or Hellenic origins which are quite prominent After all Christianity had most of its evolution in non Persian areas of the Mediterranean Sea Tell me how many Persian people are prominent in the Christian world throughout its history What fractionary comparison can you draw that factually examines the amount and shows a majority of Persian elements in Christianity compared to the vast amount of Greek specialty as written verified and generally known amongst the entire Christian populace and the nursery of Christianity itself in Egypt via the Old Testament even Jesus s infancy was spent in Egypt in safety from Herod Please where is the background of Christianity in Persia besides 19th century racial studies Like I ve said the Noahide classification thing has been similarly discredited and its density in weight grew most during that era for Indo Aryan racist theories 23 43 24 Feb 2005 UTC