Can someone explain to me how Christianity responsible for the rise and development of Western Civilization? Didn't the West rise to power because of the ideas of the Enlightenment like how people should rely on reason, free thinking, free speech etc and not on dogma, authority, the Church etc? Major developments in science and technology were the result of the ideas from the Enlightenment and not Christianity. That's like saying the Arabs were once the most developed civilization because of Islam or that China was once the most developed civilization because of Buddhism or whatever religion they're into. How can a civilization thrive because of religion and not because of science, free speech and other good stuff which were the result of the Enlightenment?
Can someone explain to me how Christianity responsible for the rise and development of Western Civilization...
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The west thrived because of white genes not religion nor the mistake called the enlightenment.
No there are too many religion threads going right now
Can anyone elaborate further, why do you guys think Christianity developed the West?
Because Christian monks preserved the knowledge of the ancient world while Germanic tribes were going around raping and pillaging after the fall of Rome.
The englightemnet came about because of the christian faith. This shit ain't rocket science. It isn't even esoteric it's a very clear cut piece of history. Bother to read a book sometime OP maybe you'll learn something.
>Enlight em net
That's a cool typo.
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read 'How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization'
Watch these two videos on why Western Civilization needs Christianity:
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That's a good book but I think he overemphasizes Catholicism as opposed to Biblical Christianity even though I generally agree with the book's premise.
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>Didn't the West rise to power because of the ideas of the Enlightenment like how people should rely on reason, free thinking, free speech etc and not on dogma, authority, the Church etc?
No, the so-called Enlightenment is BOTH anti-reason (because it subverts your capacity to know anything at all) as well as responsible for the decline of the West. Besides, the Americas were fully colonised by the time the so-called Enlightenment came around anyway.
Catholicism is Biblical Christianity.
It demonstrably is not, kid.
It's literally the ONLY Biblical Christianity.
Things like the "Church" of Sweden are jokes.
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
Matthew 10:34
>Western Civilization hadn't already rose to power by the time of Christianity much less the enlightenment
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>Can someone explain to me how Christianity responsible for the rise and development of Western Civilization?
The same way Communism, "is like science!".
>Because Christian monks preserved the knowledge
Peserved it after destroying all history and knowledge. They burned down all the philsopher schools and libaries, then said all Western European writing/artifacts/history/culture is devil magic so they burned that too.
Its more Politics most of europe would have unified under christiandom and gave heed to the pope in rome.
It gave Europe a chance to advance technology and education as most Tribal warfare had died down and now the Kings could make deals etc.Basically most people stopped being viking niggers.
Also monks would have written alot of books n stuff.
Also the slave trade built the new world with the invention of caravels in Potrugal 1400's. These new slave routes were indeed signed off by the pope.
And so new slave routes were formed further south around Africa. because the Muslims had cut off most Caucasian slave routes and held most of North African slave routes.
Most of these new slaves went to the Americas to build plantations there. These slaves got lucky with the invention of the John deere tractor and other farm machinery.
And no athiests or buhdist Chinese were fucking dumb. The emporer in China starved all his people to build the Forbiden city pretty much fucked over his empire.
Because following God's Path naturally leads to successfulness
It helped forming communities under one deity oppossed to pagan beliefs where it was either completely okay to raid to the village or there were conflicts between X town worshipping Z deity but Y town worshipped that deity's nemesis and waged religious wars against eachother.
If your metric for societal improvement is exclusively better technology or higher GDP than in the past, then the Enlightennebt is just fine.
From a metaphysical perspective, however the enlightenment was rather destructive. There is a direct link between early "classical liberalism" and progressivism and even communism. They are all modernist ideologies which have successfully destroyed traditional institutions, community bonds, the and the family in an ill-fated pursuit of freedom and individualism which has only degenerated into hedonism. People no longer have a higher purpose in life - no telos - whether that be found in their God or their people and as a result they lack a sense of responsibility beyond their own self interest.
Modernists tell use that that sense of purpose can be acquired through education or work, but the fact is that vast majority will not be successful doctors, lawyers, intellectuals or any other high powered profession that one can find true meaning in. Most people will drudge along with menial wage labor which they probably despise. Many people still find a sense of purpose in family even today, but as we see, it is being relentlessly attacked by modern culture.
That all being said, I think it is fair to criticize christianity for in some sense leading to the enlightenment in the sense of liberalism being a Christian heresy. I haven't looked too much into it, but it seems convincing to me.