(July 2, 2024 at 11:02 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: Christianity didn't improve anything for europeans.
I think europeans got lucky. They had the various bits of technology to make glassware, to make chemicals. As science developed (~17xx), they started to put more importance on logic, discovery, philosophy and along with that, there was social change.
Or maybe it is the renaissance period that put europeans on that path.
I'm not exactly sure how europeans got out of the theocratic mess.
Most likely the process started with the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to Asia. This presented them with a lot of stuff contrary to what dogma told them despite the fact that effort was a crusade to find Prestor John and outflank the Muslims.
Obviously this wasn't a knockout blow but the accumulation of information from around the world would have been consistently challenging to the church.
The current decline of Christianity is progressing at a rate of ~25% of the congregation over a period equal to average life expectancy less the average age of the congregation. The average age of the congregation is increasing at a rate of ~6 months per annum and will likely see the collapse of Christianity in Britain during the 2030s.
If those rates are projected backwards the start of that process was around the 1920s.
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