This chapter explains how Christianity became one of the world's religion. Christianity played a huge role in World History. Christianity was a hostile religion at first and it took time and blood shed for Christianity to be accepted. For an example, Constantine won a war that made him the emperor of Rome which allowed him to let Christianity be accepted in Rome. The characteristics of Christendom had a life long impact as well as going into the modern era. The characteristics emerged during the era of the third wave civilization.
Reading this chapter was very interesting and entertaining because I am currently enrolled in a Christianity course that explained how Christianity came to be from the start and when I read this chapter, I was able to relate some of the facts to my Christianity class, however, when I read an interesting fact that I didn't know, It caught my attention and encouraged me to read much more
Extra Credit Comment: It is important to remember the violent history of christianity as it relates to other religions today. Today, no holy wars are declared in the name of Christianity, but terrorist groups like Isis have the same "if you are not with me your against me mentality" to the nth degree. It is hard to look at something as bad as Isis and relate it back to a Christianity, but the parallels are too strong too ignore.
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