Roosevelt, McKinley, and the other proponents of an American imperialism insisted that by annexing other countries, Americans would, in McKinley's words, "civilize and Christianize" them.

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Cromarties and others say Robertson is also damaging America abroad especially among those in the Muslim world who fear that America is on a crusade to Christianize the world.

NPR: Christian Leaders Balk at Robertson's Remarks

His boss, Ashok Singhal, told a gathering of VHP faithful in December that Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen was helping Christianize India by advocating universal literacy--Christian schools presumably would do the job--and that the Nobel committee was in on the plot, having already given a peace prize to that famous Christian troublemaker Mother Teresa (Singhal subsequently denied the statement).

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