In many third world and poor countries, missionaries advertise that the West (America and Europe) are rich because of Christianity though the truth is contrary. Many gullible people equate economic prosperity to adoption of Christianity and convert. Mark Twain rightly said
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born."
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