What has Christianity truly contributed to humanity

[Nishant Xavier]

Well, if by consideration, you mean Reason and Conscience, then Traditional Catholic Augustino-Thomistic Christianity has always agreed. That's called Natural Law, which is binding on our Consciences, and all people everywhere are bound by them, even those who've never heard of Christ, and will be judged by them. I gave the example of those Native Indians in America who had never heard of Christ but were sincerely serving God and loving their neighbor before Missionary Priests met with them. Then they heard about the True God who loves them with Perfect Love and wants to give them Eternal Happiness and became Christian. And St. Francis Xavier also used a similar argument with the Japanese, which convinced them of God's Existence and Christianity's Truth. He said, even someone brought up with hardly any moral influence from others is still able to know Good from Evil, and that he is bound to choose the Good; and then that only a Good God could have designed or programmed humanity this way, which those who were questioning him and had some doubts about Christian Religion accepted. He also had recourse to all manner of other arguments, after which they finally acknowledged Christianity was indeed the One True Religion.

But Reason is backed up by Revelation, because without explicit written reminders from time to time, "Thou shalt not kill", "Thou shalt not steal", "Thou shalt not commit adultery", "Thou shalt give to the Poor", "Thou shalt not covet, thy neighbor's wife, or goods etc", experience shows, people would sooner or later fall into errors even on what they know through Conscience.

I will give the example of Margaret Sanger: "A close reading of the works of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, reveals that she was a champion not just of contraception, as is usually thought, but also of abortion and infanticide. She claimed that there was a natural “evolution” from infanticide to abortion to contraception, with all three stages of fertility-control offering legitimate ways for women to avoid what she called “involuntary motherhood.” Moreover, if contraceptives proved not to be foolproof, she saw no reason not to fall back on abortion (if it were “skilled”) and infanticide. Indeed, she explicitly approved of mothers exposing their infants in ancient Sparta and Rome, as well as drowning their girl-infants in contemporary China. She regarded the right to kill their infants as evidence of women’s high status in antiquity, and so she excoriated early Christians for replacing infanticide with orphanages" https://www.uffl.org/vol16/gardiner06.pdf Contraception and Abortion of course most Atheists today accept, so we'll pass over that; what about Infanticide? Doesn't Conscience clearly teach us it is wrong? Yet Sanger disagreed, and praised instead those early pagans who believed killing children post-birth was good, whereas Christianity abolished that and gave birth to Orphanages. Thank You, Lord Jesus, for all You have done for Humanity's Sake! Christianity is the Best Thing ever to happen to Humankind. God Bless.

An excerpt from the above: "Infanticide is simply ridding oneself of an intolerable “nuisance.”1 This passage demonstrates Sanger’s pitiless view of nascent life and shows how fitting it is that she should be the founder of Planned Parenthood, today the chief purveyor of abortions in the United States. In another place she remarks, “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” She is remembered for her 2 fight to legalize birth control, but a close reading of Sanger’s work shows that she saw birth control, abortion, and infanticide as differing only in degree, not in kind. They were points on the same continuum." Fascinating stuff. So infanticide is ok after all. Who knew? Lol. Crazy Sanger.