The Nestorian Church (Iranian: اکلیسای نستوری, Eklisā-i Nasturi) (Classic Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ) was the historical church of Iran established in the ancient times under the native Sassanian Dynasty The Nestorian Church historically known as the Church of the East or the Iranian Church functioned as the major Christian church of the Iranian Empire under the Sassanian Dynasty in ancient Iran When there was the 800 year war between Iran and Rome it was the case that many Christians of Iran were potentially serving the interests of the Christian Byzantine Empire of Anatolia therefore Iran under the Sassanian Dynasty established the Nestorian Church to prevent Iranian Christians from ever becoming traitors or the 5th column that would serve Byzantium making them loyal only to Zoroastrian Iran instead The church separated from the Roman/Byzantine state church after the Council of Ephesus in 431 CE. Because it operated outside the Roman Empire, it avoided Roman persecution and gained official recognition from the Iranian Shah's of the Sassanian Dynasty Headquartered at Seleucia-Ctesiphon (located in modern-day Babylonia that is falsely known as Iraq, near Baghdād, which was part of the Iranian sphere of influence), its territory covered ancient Mesopotamia and Iran (i.e. Aryana) While outsiders and historians often called it the "Nestorian Church" due to its adoption of East Syriac theology aligned with Nestorius, the church itself historically viewed the term as imprecise or pejorative. Modern descendants prefer names like the Assyrian Church of the East. From its heartland in Iran, the church sent missionaries eastward along the Silk Road, establishing thriving communities across Central Asia, India, and China during the Tang dynasty. The Nestorian served as the center of Iranian Christianity where Iranian Christians viewed Jesus Christ as their Messiah and the Son of God while at the same time viewing the Shāhanshāh of Iran as the "Lord of Lords" (i.e. "the Overlord") because this is what the Iranian term "Shāhanshāh" literally means in its native gender-neutral meaning and alternatively it also means "King of Kings" (i.e. "the Emperor") or "Queen of Queens" (i.e. "the Empress") if we were to be gender-specific about it based on the gender of the Monarch of Iran and since this concept existed long before Christianity it is logical to say that the idea of "Lord of Lords" or "King of Kings" or "Queen of Queens" is exclusively for the Shāhanshāh of Iran when it comes to the Iranian context and that this is how Iranian Christians themselves view the matter this way Iranian Christians can be both Christian and Iranian without undermining their Iranian heritage itself this way they have ensured that the thread between their Iranian identity and Christianity is tied carefully to avoid any possible contradictions

My stance in this conversation is as follows: I'm classic liberal which under normal circumstances would make me side with Konstantin Kisin since we are fellow classic liberals that align ideologically together however in this conversation Andrew Wilson made the more coherent argument therefore I had to side with him despite not aligning with his ideology since he sounded more logical in comparison when it comes to the responsibility, duty and obligation of citizens to their Homeland when it comes to what men and women owe to their Homeland As an Atheist I must say Andrew Wilson is the only famous Christian that I respect because he never tries to white-wash Christianity and prevents Christianity from being feminized by some conservative women who are covert-feminists that seek to undermine the true patriarchal nature of Christianity I respect Andrew Wilson because he is intellectually honest and consistent when it comes to Christianity because he never shys away from the facts even if the facts about Christianity that he advocates for causes people to get alienated by it and ultimately move away from it because we need true old school Christianity to be spoken about again which is not the rosey imagine that recent Christianity advocates have been painting and the only thing that saved the reputation of Christianity in Modernity is the Age of Enlightennent that occured centuries prior that allowed for Christianity to liberalize, secularize and ultimately modernize itself otherwise if it stayed in it's original traditional form it would have been 2nd worst religion after Islam which is the 1st worst religion by huge margin because it is the fact that with each Abrahamic religion they got increasingly worse which is why Judaism is more progressive (In the proper advanced sense not the WOKE sense) compared to Christianity and Islam because they are distortions away from the original Abrahamic religion that is Judaism which is why Judaism will always be seen as more logical than Christianity and Islam

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