Ireland: An Expansion through Time The Romans were the first true force to convert to Christianity. During their reign they would conquer and command heathen tribes into obeying this new found religion. However, the Roman Empire would decay, disappear and then it was left to another group to take over. The Irish would eventually become a driving force behind Christianity; peaceably converting and forming new ideas and thought behind the religion itself. Thus, the Irish …showed first 75 words of 1410 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1410 total…that would believe in them but they also had a country that would support them. For as Reinhold Neibuhr says in the foreword of How The Irish Saved Civilization, “Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes any complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.” Ireland was saved by its faith and in turn it saved a civilization from a chaos that was sure to follow.