> I credit Christianity with the invention of proselytizing; religions before it (including Judaism, its immediate parent) were content to stay with a given tri

> I credit Christianity with the invention of proselytizing; religions before it (including Judaism, its immediate parent) were content to stay with a given tribe and not try to spread. The credit would be misplaced. I'm pretty sure by the time Jesus was born, there had been an almost incalculable number of conquests and pogroms for some deity or the other.