Napoleon Bonaparte, speaking with General Bertrand about Jesus Christ during his exile on Saint Helena around 1820, said: “I know men, and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is an infinite distance between Christianity and any other religion. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I myself founded empires. But on what did the creations of our genius rest? On force. Jesus Christ founded his empire on love, and at this very hour millions of men would die for him. I think I understand something of human nature, and I tell you: all those were men, and I am a man; none is like him. Jesus Christ was more than a man. Between him and any other person in the world, there is no possible comparison.”