What Is the Church? Is It a Welfare State?

What enabled it to spread so quickly in a way that other similarly, Michael and cults hadn't? "It does fuse together so many desperate cultural elements at a time where the Roman Empire is serving as a kind of melting pot" The church also provides famine relief. It provides sanctuary for orphans or for widows or for the old. Essentially, it provides everything that we today would look for in a welfare state.