Paul's Writings Underpin Western Thought

[Angrboda]

I don't have anything to say about the main question here, other than that I think it would take more substantial scholarship on the question than the usual facile apologetic that is offered for such things, as well as counting the positives that a Christian like Paul may have contributed to Western Civilization, one also has to keep in mind that Christianity also contributed the strain of thought which led to the extermination of six million Jews in World War II.  One has to look at both the upside as well as the downside of any such hypothetical contributions, as well as making the previously mentioned distinction as to whether the thinker was more an effect of already present cultural effects, rather than its originator, and especially whether the ideas represented were truly original with, and a consequence of, the activity of Paul.

What specific Christian-originating strain of thought led to the extermination of six million Jews? Seems to me you would need there to be some pretty substantial ambiguity to make the connection to the Holocaust.

You mean besides anti-semitism in general?