#christendom

That addition you made... I had no idea that was the reason the Europeans even sailed west to the Americas, never once in any level of my academic life I ever got told the spread of islam was to blame. Then again, they also did not tell me the truth about the crusades, so that's just par for the course at this point. Still, it's interesting to think how the average leftist speaks so much in favor of the culture who was responsible for what they would consider the darkest centuries of history, not to mention the continuing of slave trade to this day among other violations of human rights. The Israel-Gaza conflict is really a simple symptom of a larger disease of historical illiteracy and indocrination, huh?

Had the life of Christ, and the nature of Christianity, been known and lived in by all that profess the name [of Christian], Christendom would have been as a fruitful field, and as a pleasant garden enclosed, and as a vineyard walled about, full of trees of righteousness and plants of God’s own right hand planting. And the tree of life would have flourished among them in the midst thereof, and the leaves of the same would have healed the nations round about. And it would have been as a city set upon a hill, which cannot be hid; and as a lamp that burns, being fed with sweet oil; and as a glorious light that shines: and many would have fled unto it, as unto a city of refuge, and have walked in the light thereof, and have seen and beheld their good works, and have glorified their Father which is in heaven. And they would have laid down as a flock of harmless lambs together […], where no destroyer is nor none can make afraid.