Nowhere has Christian publishing found the market it has in the USA. In new countries, such as Afghanistan, they are unrecognized and persecuted, the country showing a primitive hostility to the modern world. Africa seems to have a better outlook, which cues some promise.
Belief in a kindly, heavenly father, which started with the Jews, to be completed by the Messiah and his followers, seems to have rounded, or tempered, our civilization. As the Appalachian philosopher says, civilization has become more livable.
It makes me feel I know what I’m talking about when I say the “Our Father.”
Civilization 