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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
mind qualifying this? why do you think christianity made such a big difference?
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Hmmm.... I think you guys may have misread my comment. When I said Christianity changed the world for "good", I did not mean it in the value sense as in, for the better. Rather, I meant "for good" as in Christianity has forever altered humanity's landscape (for good or for bad that's up to interpretation).
Why do I say this?
Well, I believe that Christianity had a huge inluence on human events/achievements etc.
The arts - a major influence: patronage, commission, subject matter
Education - monks etc kept learning alive and libraries of knowledge
War - so much war was made in the name of Christianity that arguably has made a huge difference in the past 2000 years. (i.e. - Crusades, Gulf war etc)
Spread of Christianity has led to colonization, imperialism (divine right of kings etc) and of course, more war.
Christianity also influenced concepts like "equality" and the like heavily affecting revolutionary movements, most notably US independence. Christianity was a factor in the birth of the US.
And so it persists today. Just look at the dynamic bewteen Christianity and ....everyone else. Not just internationally, but domestically too. Including issues such as right to life, right to die so on and so forth.