Well we children want our say now.

Sailor Jack's a Christian. Ha ha ! We'll beat him up at playtime ha ha!

Christianity is just about all from other religions, not just the threat and promise bits of controlling people. Although on balance, the bastards seem far more efficient at it than the other religions... I love the quote from Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he said that "when the white men came, they had the Bible and we had the land. They invited us to close our eyes and pray. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land."

I had read it 'you prat'. My question still stands. The other examples indicate places other than this world but do they all use them as carrot and stick? Are they all of the threat and promise variety?