Consider this: All men of belief believe that what they accept as true, is true, and that what others accept as true is flawed in some way. Clearly, humans have and do demonstrate themselves capable of believing in some of the most ridiculous ideas. Some religious ideas, on the other hand, are of absolute merit and are universally accepted. In my humble opinion, Christianity has spread the way that it has for one reason in particular: Christianity, once upon a time offered European pagan warlords and tribes a militaristic and psychological advantage in their fight for power. Pagan European Kings and leaders saw the strategic advantage (some say so in their records) of the "new faith" and embraced it for that reason. Their followers, on the other hand, accepted Christianity because that's what followers do, they follow. Christianity has proliferated because of the oft-spoken of socializing/organizing affect that it has on populations. Christianity has demonstrated itself to be a double-edged sword. Wicked men are "Christians" and not so wicked men are also Christians. For indigenous people, Christian people are from the darkness and to Christians all non-Christians need to be saved, for their own good. Christian history has proven to be bloody, brutal, and racist. By the time those soul saving conversions and 100 years have passed, you get crackhead/alcoholic, disenfranchised, under-educated, out-of-shape, gang-banging people of all races and ethnicities (and a million other failures). I hate to say it but Christians, then and now, really don't understand the bible (no matter what they say to the contrary). A Hebrew system, comprehended and practiced by nomadic, tribal, ancient people, that can't be fully understood by modern man, or reconciled with the world as we see it today. Put another way: If you practice what the bible says, if you do what the bible says do, you will be branded a terrorist. I see no possible way that a human being can obey the biblical Judeo-Christian God and obey a national government, without conflict that will leave one or the other violently angry. The Biblical God requires "Fidelity" as a condition for acceptance. You can't be a man of God on Sunday morning and a good American the rest of the time and expect God-almighty to accept your life. Read the book, again, very carefully. Then, read it some more. 1up-vote.