Jesus' role alterd

It happens a lot. In some countries it's the Virgin Mary, or various saints for different kinds of help. Some people call it idolatry or more kindly, superstition. This kind of thing was pretty common in the Middle Ages. Don't worry about it too much.

I heard it was his roll that was alterd - he changed a kaiser into a bismark.

Marco Polo described the various portions of the Yuan Dynasty empire (the China-based, shrunken Mongol empire) by among other things, their religious adherence. He noted Jews, Christians and Saracens, which is to say, Muslims. All three confessions were present throughout the empire. As we know now, confessional Judaism was spread by the Aramaean merchants who traded far to east, all the way to China. Some of them later became Christians, almost exclusively Nestorians, and spread their doctrine to the east into Asia. Nestorians saw Jesus as having two natures, both human and divine. They did not consider Mary, the putative mother of the putative Jesus, to be saintly, but just an ordinary woman. Soon condemned as heretical, the Nestorians found a refuge among the Sasanians, the Persians of the Neo-Persiain empire. Although having a state religion, the Sasanids, like the ancient Romans, were religiously tolerant (that is, until the Christians took over)--so the Nestorians prospered, especially as they provided an important trade link to the far east. When the Jesuits began to filter into the Ming empire, which succeeded the Yuan, they found it very common that the Han, the people we call the Chinese, were "poly-religious." They practiced ancestor worship, which was as close to religion with them as religion is known in the west. But they were fond of hedging their bets. They kept a "Jewish" shrine to Yahweh. a "Muslim" shrine to Mohammed, and a "Christian" shrine to Jesus. They treated all three as gods in the sense they that understood them, powerful spirits independent of the earth. Han (Chinese) culture spread throughout eastern and southeastern Asia because of their mercantile efforts and success, and they spread their attitudes toward relgion just as they spread the other aspects of their culture.