There is a long history of empire. Or do you mean something else?
Catholicism is just as expansion-oriented as the expansionist Muslim variants. Fundamentalist-Christianity, in the modern form, is a bit late to the game, but coming on strong.
If you think about it, this is just basic memetics. All mental contagions exploit various strategies to propagate. The very long-lived ones get good at it. There are long-term cognitive-parasitic strategies that don't involve expansionism, but they have costs and risks.
Catholicism is just as expansion-oriented as the expansionist Muslim variants. Fundamentalist-Christianity, in the modern form, is a bit late to the game, but coming on strong.
If you think about it, this is just basic memetics. All mental contagions exploit various strategies to propagate. The very long-lived ones get good at it. There are long-term cognitive-parasitic strategies that don't involve expansionism, but they have costs and risks.