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Originally Posted by nguirado
How's this: Charity and care for those not useful increased many fold with Christianity. Some of the concepts, like a duty to care for people (on account of them being created in the image of God) even without compensation, were so rare in the pagan world that it may be said that Christians "invented" it.
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"In the Roman Empire, social welfare to help the poor was enlarged by the Caesar Trajan"
"The concepts of welfare and pension were put into practice in the early Islamic law"
"The medieval Roman Catholic Church operated a far- reaching and comprehensive welfare system for the poor."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare#History