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Right, it has functioned as a de facto folk religion in the face of the extreme otherness of would be conquerors (Muslims in Martel's day) or masses of immigrants (the Irish in Bill the Butcher's day), but these seem to only end up being temporary bursts of folkishness that end up dispersing once the threat is either neutralized or absorbed. The reason for this would, as you indicate, be the inherent universalism of Christian theology.
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