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Originally Posted by tompe
I do not really get how universities help the poor and protect human rights but that is not so important. Why do you claim hospitals and universities for a specific religion? What is the evidence that we would not have as good or better hospitals or universities without christianity for example?
And from what I remember medical research was held back by religion. For example it was hard to get access to bodies and so on.
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Hospitals and universities are Church inventions. There were libraries, of course, but no school with a comprehensive curriculum. There wasn't organized care for the poor either.
Education for more than the very rich is a Christian invention as well. The first "public" schools started in Italy by a Saint whose name I forgot. Before then, it was mostly tutors.
Most American universities before the early twentieth were religious (Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, USC, etc.). Look at the names of the oldest American hospitals.
I didn't learn this from the CA public school system, but with e-reader technology, I can more easily gain access to the rest of the story.