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| Raphael's Healing of the Lame Man |
For rank ignorance of the early history of the church you can hardly do better than that, and I won't mention who said it but her initials are RS.
Christians basically took over Roman culture from the bottom up through their sustained ministry to the poorest members of society, transforming it so that it eventually became what was called the Holy Roman Empire.
Evidently it is little studied anymore.
A shining early example of changing the world one person at a time without money but with the Gospel of Christ comes from the Acts of the Apostles:
Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
-- Acts 3:6
