What has Christianity truly contributed to humanity

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I disagree. They are invoked FIRST and primarily because they are scientists, not Christians. They have contributed as scientists, not "as Christians". These  scientists *happen to be* Christian. They would not have even been invoked if they were not scientists. Christian scientists don't have their own scientific method, different from all the rest of science.

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@Helios
I wasn't claiming religion as the source of anything, that's not a Christian stance. The things I listed were areas Christians, the "church", or religious dictums contributed to bettering society, as was the original question. I'm also not denying the division and two-faced ness of the "church". The question wasn't "do the scales balance?" it was "has it done anything worth anything?" Knowing that this is a poke thread though, more than likely, it is just a place for anti-theists to vent. I have no problem entertaining actual discussions but it has to be in the vein of the OP. If you want a bag on the church thread, I'm certain there are tons of other places and threads here on that.

Good people do good things. 
There is no evidence that I know of, that proves evil people turn good and do good because of Christianity. 
Correlation is not causation.

How many Loaves and Fishes meals have YOU served to the homeless this week ?
I would like a count of that from all the religionists here.
Where I live the groups who do that consist of far more non religious "do-gooders" than anything else.

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I delivered 2 meals last week to people that can't get out, it's a regular outreach for most churches I'm aware of. We also regularly donate to the homeless and other charities. I typically do soup kitchens on Holidays, but I'm going to miss Christmas this year because I'm moving. The salvation army runs most of the soup kitchens around here. But you can volunteer, even as an atheist. I also did some bad things last week, but YOU seem to making it personal and it's not.

Back to the conversation... So good people to good things and bad things, Bad people to bad things and good things. OK so people do good and bad things. I only use their claimed religious expression to classify them as "Christian" people. Even the most devout christian people do bad things and sin, that's kind of a core in Christianity. It doesn't make them not Christian. I'm not prepared acknowledge that I know the thoughts of other people, so I can't claim why they did what they did. It's just a simple statement, "People that claim to be Christian, have made positive impacts in society". Even FM quoting Bertrand shows that there have been "some" contributions. Then the conversation attempted to get shifted to does the good outweigh the bad for a net positive good, but again... that wasn't the assignment.

I've said it elsewhere, All humans have a personal morality. Groups of humans for a societal morality and these are both innately subjective. Christians.. or religious people have an addition objective morality from their diety/religious doctrine. It informs their very core beliefs and thus impacts their actions. I attribute my job, my location and my blessings to God. How can you prove I go to the soup kitchen because I'm just a good person and not a Christian? I don't think you can.

Even if we take all the personal morality out of it and look at organization decrees. I still think "The Catholic Church" is the largest non-governmental provider of education and medical services in the world. Historically farms, food pantries, and hospitals were built specifically right alongside missionaries and churches. The literacy and education of the middle ages was predominantly done by clergy was it not?