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Originally Posted by nguirado
What do soldiers, slaves, and gladiators have in common? They're all property, useful to their masters in some way. There wasn't widespread charity or places of care for the common person.
However, perhaps I was too absolute. 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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Really? I remember many documentaries on National Geographic and Discovery Science presenting evidence that even Neanderthals took care of group members who were ill or injured, sometimes even for years.