Why Did Christianity Prevail?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/books/review/bart-d-ehrman-the-triumph-of-christianity.html

How can you have a sense of destiny without a belief in God? Abe Lincoln, you and me, atheism, and destiny

Christopher Hitchens, provocateur, author of among other things, "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," and a prominent atheist, has written two eye-opening articles on Abraham Lincoln. Newsweek: "The Man Who Made Us Whole: Lincoln, himself, was paradoxical—as is the way we see him now. To really know the 16th president, look past the...