i am a true believer in god first.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Christianity is a Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life, teachings, and miracles of Jesus of Nazareth, known by Christians as the Christ, or \"Messiah\", who is the focal point of the Christian faiths. It is the world's largest religion, with over 2.4\u00a0billion followers, or 33% of the global population, known as Christians. Christians make up a majority of the population in 158 countries and territories. They believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of humanity whose coming as the Messiah (the Christ) was prophesied in the Old Testament. Christianity has played a prominent role in the shaping of Western civilization. Christianity grew out of Judaism and began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the mid-1st\u00a0century. Originating in the Roman province of Judea, it quickly spread to Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Transcaucasia, Egypt, Ethiopia and the Indian subcontinent, and by the end of the 4th\u00a0century had become the official state church of the Roman Empire. Following the Age of Discovery, Christianity spread to the Americas, Oceania, sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world through missionary work and colonization. Christian theology is summarized in creeds such as the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Are you a Christian, by chance?  Do you believe that Jesus is actually the Son of God?  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am not a 'Christian' except in the sense I have been raised in the Judeo Christian traditions"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, I was also raised that way. Christianity, after all, has played a huge role in how Western civilization was shaped.  The Romans were Christianized, and then inevitably, the rest of the West."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, Christianity also made some inroads in the East, but not nearly to the extent in Western areas"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "This is true.  In fact, Christianity is so engrained in our culture, that not only have festivals like Christmas and Easter been earmarked as public holidays, but our sense of time itself -- our calendar -- is measured from the date of the Jesus' birth."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's true!  The Jewish holidays though are based on their old calendar."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The Hebrew calendar is ancient, and evolved in part from the Babylonian calendar."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh!  I didn't know that!  Are there roughly the same number of Muslims as Christians?"}]