And they won't shut up about women and diversity. As delivered by women and 'diversity'. No science chit chat, that would be too hard.
I hate anything that makes me think 'hey maybe theimpossible1 is right'
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I think you hit the nail on the head.
Christianity was the bedrock moral foundation for Western civilization going back more than a thousand years, with unprecedented prosperity and advancements for humanity to show for it.
Beginning in the 1800's, a spirit of animosity against the West and against Christianity began to well up, and competing economic and moral ideologies with the explicit goal of overthrowing both the West and Christianity began to gain traction. The most "sticky" of these ideologies was a combination of Marxism and Darwinism.
Marxism challenged the morality of capitalism with an more "compassionate" economic system in communism, while Darwinism allowed people (starting with intellectuals and scientists) to abandon God and adopt a purely materialistic worldview, opening the door to a re-interpretation of morality.
What the forerunners of these ideologies envisioned was a utopian society based on science and rationality where humanity could evolve beyond the constraints of religion and superstition which they believed were holding back humanity and causing so much of the suffering in the world.
Fast forward a hundred years or so, and despite the long list of terrible failures and atrocities caused by these new ideologies, they've continued to evolve and coalesce into a new pseudo-religion/political philosophy with the specific goal of targeting and replacing Christianity and Western political philosophy with an entirely new secular, materialistic moral framework of which politics plays an integral role. In fact, in this new religion, morality itself is defined by the utility of specific actions and behavior in forwarding positive political ends, that is, forwarding it's own political influence.
Pre-Islamic Persia wasn’t atheist, they had many religions.
That aside, I never said it wasn’t possible for a nation to prosper without Christianity, but the advancement in the human condition that happened under the rise of Christianity and the formation and flourishing of Western culture over the last millennia simply isn’t comparable to anything that came before.
Our political and justice systems. The magnitude of scientific advancements. The number of people worldwide lifted out of poverty. The obscene degree of luxury people who live in Westen countries experience on a daily basis compared to prior generations. The medical advancements. The space race. Splitting the atom. The advancements in the last 200 years alone are exponentially higher than any other time in human history.