It's not that we deny that Christianity contributed to culture(They came up with extremely inventive ways to torture people, after all). It's that we deny that Christians contributed everything they claimed to have contributed, and we hate the fact that they simply dismiss all of the terrible things they contributed. To hear Chad tell it, Christianity is responsible for the Renaissance, the Theory of Relativity and every life-saving surgical procedure ever invented, while things like the mass genocide of the natives in the Americas is barely worth mentioning.
In 100 years Christians will be claiming they were responsible for gay rights, the separation of church and state, and the internet.
In 100 years Christians will be claiming they were responsible for gay rights, the separation of church and state, and the internet.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
