Steve Schear wrote: > At 06:34 PM 3/30/2003 -0500, stuart wrote: > >On Sunday, March 30, 2003, Harmon Seaver came up with this... > > > >You give too much credit to the Romans. Catholicism worked so well > >because it is a virus, and conversion was often forced upon heathens by > >their fellow countrymen. > > Interestingly though, Christianity started in the Holy Land but never got > much traction there.
Not true. Palestine became majority Christian quite early, as did parts of Syria, Armenia and Arabia. All those places, and also Egypt, were largely converted long before the Christians had any political power.
