Random observations

Three totally random thoughts:

For fourteen hundred years after the Resurrection, there was no such thing as a printing press. This means that, statistically speaking, almost no Christian ever saw, let alone read a Bible during that period. And yet, the Gospel spread anyhow.

Christianity has been present and thriving in China at least three different times, with an almost total eradication in the interims: From the early 7^th to the 9^th Century, from the early 13^th to the middle 14^th Century, and from the middle 16^th Century to today, with a failed effort to wipe it out in the middle 20^th Century.

If Henry VIII hadn’t wanted an illegitimate divorce from Catherine of Aragon, England might never have become Protestant and may have retained the strict investment liability rules of Catholicism. Only when these rules were loosened could individual investors avoid personal liability for corporate losses, and the Joint Stock Company was formed, without which it’s hard to tell when, if ever, America would have been settled, or whether we would have “corporations.”