Missionaries.

The white fathers taught us to say,

And what the missionaries would do is, they'd walk around and they'd pick up hyena shit.

What the missionaries would do is, they'd walk around and they'd pick up hyena shit.

Nor is the Jewish state of Israel, where Messianic fanatics and religious nationalists have embraced a political theology that questions the very legitimacy of the democratic institutions, immune from this phenomenon.

Barack Obama, at least when he began his campaign, had all the charisma of the holy roller, turning on the crowds with the rhetorical spark of a great evangelist.

The early evangelists, the early adopters, and that's nice but you'll have a small business until you figure out how do we get the masses to adopt? and here's what that hockey stick sales curve looks like.

To be sure, many countries adopted English, French, or Portuguese as their official languages, and European missionaries, who often followed in the colonizers footsteps, had success in transmitting their religious practices to local populations.

Barack Obama, at least when he began his campaign, had all the charisma of the holy roller, turning on the crowds with the rhetorical spark of a great evangelist. That is why he barged his way past Hillary Clinton, the consummate operator of the party machine.