Christianity and colonialism are often closely associated because Catholicism and Protestantism were the religions of the European colonial powers and acted in many ways as the "religious arm" of those powers.
基督教与殖民主义往往密切相关，因为天主教、俄罗斯东正教和新教是欧洲殖民统治的宗教，并以许多方式成为这些殖民权力的“宗教军队”而行动。