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Minus evidence-based science, free markets, government of the people, freedom of religion and the end of slavery. Yep, exactly the same.

• LudwigNagasena 4y ago
  Might as well attribute all of that to Christianity. That claim probably holds as much water.
  • andrepd 4y ago
    Attributing science and freedom of religion to Christianity? That's a bold thought.
    • dublin 4y ago
      And a correct one. There is a reason these things did not develop until when and where they did...
      • woodruffw 4y ago
        Pinning concepts like "science" and "freedom" to a specific era is a silly endeavor. But if you had to, neither would originate in Christian Europe: science as a concept predates Christianity by at least 800 years; the thing we call "freedom" today didn't take shape until 1600 years into Christian Europe's development. Christianity, like just about every religion, has made invaluable contributions to philosophy. But it's ahistorical, to an embarrassing degree, to attribute such broad concepts and bodies of inquiry to it.