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Originally Posted by GA Russell
I disagree with nguirado's broadly citing the Abrahamic religions as major influences on the West. I say that it was Christianity alone. Constantine became a Christian, not a Jew, and made Christianity the state religion of the Empire. It was priests, not rabbis and imams, who guided the people in the development of Europe's culture from the time of Constantine till the time of Martin Luther.
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And it was Christians who tortured and executed women for "witchcraft" based on unsupported claims by their neighbors in order to grab their property, Christians who slaughtered the residents of this land with warfare and disease, stole their homes, desecrated their holy sites, Christians who enslaved the residents of Africa and brought them here to treat like animals, Christians who insisted that a husband can't possibly rape his wife, Christians who declared that skin color decided who you could marry (and later, that gender decided it), and Christians who created Sundown Towns.
By all means, let's make sure Western Civ covers the impact of Christianity on history.