The East Excels

"In every way the East excels, and most of all in its religion, the Christian religion, which also comes from Asia and which is far older and truer than all the philosophies and crude myths of the Greeks."

Tatian the Assyrian, Address to the Greeks, late 2nd century AD. (quoted in Samuel Hugh Moffett, A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. 1, 74-75)