What has Christianity truly contributed to humanity

[no one]

Love, understanding, world peace, proof of the almighty, apple pie.

[Bucky Ball]

35,000 sects of Christianity. Pretty damn big family there.

[Aegon]

Historian Tom Holland argues that the concept of human dignity and existential equality come out of the Christian tradition.

Donald Trump argues that he won Arizona.

What? Lol. I don't even care about this topic all that much but this is an absurd response. I imagine a historian has better ground to stand on for his history opinion than Trump does for his electoral opinion.

[Anomalocaris]

It descends on which “historian”.

[The Grand Nudger]

Christophilic authors are well known experts in human dignity and existential inequality. Just a quick wiki, and I see yet another example of exactly what I'm talking about. The guy says to himself, I'm not roman or greek at all, I'm thoroughly christian, as though christianity didn't suckle on the greco roman tit. He means this nominally, as an atheist....ofc. Whatever, people identify however they like, but I find that I'm not greco roman or christian...at all...and the christians I see around me aren't any of those things either. So there's that.

Ultimately, that's the rosetta stone to any such claim. If we include nominal christians who might also happen to be atheists and thus everything anyone has ever done in any society or group that so much as calls themselves christian regardless of whether or not they even believe in a god..then..maybe..we can posit that christianity did...something.....?

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Despite this being an obvious poke thread, I think I can post something good that Christianity has contributed.
Foster Care, the modern concept of Hospitals, graded levels of education, hygiene, industrial improvements, literacy, agriculture, abolition of indentured servitude, countless charities and I believe a majority of the Nobel laureates were Christian. It's woven all through multiple societies, governments, art, music, literature and (gasp) even science.

The pre-Christian Romans had hospitals christian west could not match for nearly 1500 years until the late 1800s.   It was excuses of christian piety that caused the formerly fastidious daily bathers of western europe to largely abandon bathing almost completely for perhaps a thousand years.  The pre-christian romans almost certainly enjoyed much higher literacy rate than christian europe  before the 19th century.    

please site source of the claim that majority of Nobel Laureates in fields that deal with how things actually are, ie the natural sciences, are christian’s.

basically christianity like to claim dominion for its god over everything, so it certainly has no hesitation in claiming credit for everything,  even when it is claiming credit for is the result of societies getting back to the level it had enjoyed before christianity.

Overreaching hutzpah in the service of its own aggrandizement is another miracle of christianity.

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Yes there were hospitals before Christians, the Romans had war hospitals and the Greek had the opium temple equivalent. St. Basil of Caesarea did found the first public hospital that I'm aware of that would be comparison to today's hospitals.  Later, Charlemagne decreed that every cathedral should have a school, monastery and hospital attached. While I concede that a place to heal the sick wasn't invented by Christians. I don't see how any reasonable person could argue against Christian positive influence to spread public hospitalization.

To your other question

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Baruch A. Shalev, 100 Years of Nobel Prizes (2003), Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, p. 57: between 1901 and 2000 reveals that 654 Laureates belong to 28 different religions. Most (65.4%) have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference. ISBN 978-0935047370

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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.

[The Grand Nudger]

It's easy to argue that christianity hasn't been a positive influence in healthcare, it remains committed to denying healthcare to this very day.

The christian scientists™ have some weird thing against tamiflu, jws think blood transfusions are icky, the cathlicks don't like bortin babbies and the fundies think people should suffer with the mental health god "gifted" them. OFC, the main consumers of each and every service are, by sheer force of demographics, christian. Nominal or otherwise.

The desire or existential need to corner an intentionally limited market cannot credibly be confused with any beneficent religious motivation to the betterment of humanity. Insomuch as christianity ever stumbled into doing anything right by accident, it set out to do the thing for wholly degenerate reasons, and topped it off by lying about what they did, what others did, and..now..where they even got the idea.

Holy...holy...holy.

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While 93 percent of the members of the National Academy of Sciences,
one of the most elite scientific organizations in the United States, do not believe in God, ... is true,
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comment...l_academy/
the entire discussion is invalid in Logic.

It is an example of the "argumentum ad vericundiam", (the argument from authority) fallacy.

Their expertise is in science, not religions, philosophy or history.

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here's a free one that's better than reddit.

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Stirrat, M., Cornwell, R.E. Eminent scientists reject the supernatural: a survey of the Fellows of the Royal Society. Evo Edu Outreach 6, 33 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1936-6434-6-33

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Which shows that our British counterparts agree. It's not a logically unsound argument though.
I'm not arguing that they are the authority on anything. I argue that their self-identity classifies them as Christian, and as such, within their field they have contributed to society. I don't think you can separate the who they claim from the who they are. Not that it matters. In some way part of who they are is/was Christian. Their Christianity may have zero bearing on their scientific contribution, but it can't be divorced from who they are. Therefore it meets the definition of Christian contribution.

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It's easy to argue that christianity hasn't been a positive influence in healthcare, it remains committed to denying healthcare to this very day.

The christian scientists™ have some weird thing against tamiflu, jws think blood transfusions are icky, the cathlicks don't like bortin babbies and the fundies think people should suffer with the mental health god "gifted" them.  OFC, the main consumers of each and every service are, by sheer force of demographics, christian.  Nominal or otherwise.

The desire or existential need to corner an intentionally limited market cannot credibly be confused with any beneficent religious motivation to the betterment of humanity.  Insomuch as christianity ever stumbled into doing anything right by accident, it set out to do the thing for wholly degenerate reasons, and topped it off by lying about what they did, what others did, and..now..where they even got the idea.  

Holy...holy...holy.

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I don't deny, that Religious view and christians themselves have been a negative influence in healthcare and may other areas GN. That wasn't the assignment though. Even stumbling around into doing the right things for the wrong reasons still shows that there was a "right thing" and Christians did it, by your own admission.

[The Grand Nudger]

I have higher standards for determining that a person did the right thing, rather then failing at doing the wrong thing and ending up helping on accident....on the rare occasion they even managed that much.

I'll just point out, again, that you're going to be doomed to polishing a turd. When you're done, it will still be a turd. Obvioously, christian people are people, it's not surprising to see them try to improve their lot in life..in spite of, and not because of, their christianity. That is the story of christian schism after all.

[Aegon]

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