You can learn more by studying the story of Abraham and Sarah. When Sarah allowed her handmaiden to sleep with her husband (Abraham), the handmaiden had a child (Ismael). God told the handmaiden he would make a great nation of her child (the Arabs), if the child would worship HIM. They went off and worshipped other gods. No wonder they live in the middle ages.
Because of Jewish tradition, the eldest child inherits everything. Well, Ismael believed he was the eldest, but GOD choose Isaac as the eldest, because he was born of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
This fight over the inheritance is what the Middle East mess is all about. The arabs claim the land is theirs, and the Jews claim it is theirs. I side with the Jews, because the Bible clearly says the inheritance is Isaac's.
So the whole point of orthodoxy is prosperity?
Ya know...every Christian on earth used to live in the middle ages.