Reply #7: If this is what they think, they're going to break their teeth on Islam

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Christianity has been able to make inroads in Buddhist countries like Korea, but I suspect this is mainly because Buddhism is such a laid back religion that it doesn't offer the kind of emotional self-indulgence that evangelical Christianity does.

However, Christianity has never made much headway against Hinduism -- which has plenty of emotionalism of its own -- except among the very poorest and most excluded castes.

And when it's come up against Islam, Christianity has almost always had to retreat. Spain is the only example I can recall of a formerly Moslem country that is now Christian -- and Spain was retaken from the Moors by force of arms, not by its powers of persuasion.