JESUS
WHAT OUR WORLD WOULD BE LIKE WITHOUT CHRISTIANITY
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Jeremiah J. Johnston
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r. Jeremiah J. Johnston, a professor, scholar and public speaker, guides
us on a journey through the history of mankind as he weighs, based
on an enormous variety of perspectives, the impact that the Bible and
the Christian faith have had throughout the centuries.
THE AUTHOR SHOWS us how the world
was before Jesus and the Christian movement
were first born, when poverty, slavery, pros-
titution, and women and child abuse were
common. The rise of Christianity gave the
world a new path, bringing a huge improve-
ment in the society’s overall quality of life,
especially in the lower social strata.
Suffering, fear and inequality ran rampant
back then. The people were hostages of pain
and disease, desperate for a cure, fearful of
death and hell in a society fractured between
freemen and slaves, rich and poor, men and
women.
Even racism faded while Christianity swept
through Europe and the Roman Empire. In
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