Christianity's Valuable Contributions to Humanity: An Examination of Militant Atheism

[Belacqua]

Like any claim, this needs to be demonstrated. 

You'd probably like a book that came out a couple of years ago called Dominion. This is by a historian named Tom Holland (not the Spider-Man actor). 

In interviews, Holland describes how his previous specialty was the Greek and Roman classical age. He wrote a number of well-received books on the period. But he said that the more he studied it, the more he realized that the values and morals of that period were repugnant to him. And when he looked to find out where the values that he had been raised with came from, he concluded that they had begun with Christianity. 

So even if the official church has fallen wildly short of the ideals that Christianity itself began, we can still honestly credit Christianity with many of the things we hold to be valuable today. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=458Bz1GPto0

As for the "conflict theory," we really should acknowledge that this is a modern invention, and that for a thousand years the greatest mathematicians and scientists saw no conflict between their religion and science.