Does Christianity has a net negative or net positive influence

>>2602481
>he types, in Christian

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Negative in Mediterranean Europe. Positive in Northern Europe because it was the only way to stop snowniggers from being savages.

>>2602481
Despite it being the cause of most wars and despair in Europe it shaped western civilization so I'd say a net positive.

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>>2602481
Mixed bag really. Cuckianity was kinda needed philosophically/theologically to bring us towards secularism. And it didn't have to be christianity specifically, any monotheistic religion could have done the job. It's just happens it's them who delivered.

Compared to most fedoras, I do believe religion played a huge part in human and civilisational development. We know the earliesr settlements out if the neolithic like ur and uruk were most likely dedicated to most one local god (inanna, etc) and need to worship had a key role in early monumentalism and hierarchisation of society. Ensis class (sumerian governors/lords) arose after the Ens (priests). Syncretism is really where it's at afterward. It unified the city states and led to the development of creations myths. We know Enuma Elis were composed AFTER gilgamesh epic; we know garden of eden (E source) came after Genesis 1 (J source). Politically it was useful to unify early nations (amenemhet i with amon-ra & senusret iii who made sobek god of lake fayum part of osiris judgment myth). Syncretism went further and further to eventually lead to Henotheism, likely due to certain divinities reaching critical importance in certain pantheons. It was alien and failed at first (eg akheneten's solar cult). But the notion did spread around. Hebrewa purged the pantheon element of enuma elis and delivered a monotheistic god. Sadly they weren't proselytisers so it got nowhere until abrahamism was adopted Christianity and later Islam. Marriage of greek philosophy about prime movers with monotheisn both emboldened and weakened it. Scholaticism made rational philosophy inseparable from itself and was needed to justify itself as "objectively true". Separation of church and state was the final result of centuries of pbilosophical back & forth. First with the mutazilites in baghdad 800AD but it didn't last long, it suceeded however in Europe a millenia later. And from there, secularism was unavoidable.


IMHO.

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>pic related

Culture isn't finance, you retard.

>>2602481
positive.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_Christianity_in_civilization

>The cultural influence of the Church has been vast. Church scholars preserved literacy in Western Europe following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire.[1] During the Middle Ages, the Church rose to replace the Roman Empire as the unifying force in Europe. The cathedrals of that age remain among the most iconic feats of architecture produced by Western civilization. Many of Europe's universities were also founded by the church at that time. Many historians state that universities and cathedral schools were a continuation of the interest in learning promoted by monasteries.[2] The university is generally regarded as an institution that has its origin in the Medieval Christian setting.[3][4] The Reformation brought an end to religious unity in the West, but the Renaissance masterpieces produced by Catholic artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael at that time remain among the most celebrated works of art ever produced. Similarly, Christian sacred music by composers like Pachelbel, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Verdi is among the most admired classical music in the Western canon.

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>>2602596
>using Wikipedia for anything other than sourcing nationalistic arguments
Wew KANG

>>2602481
Are we assuming Christianity never existed or assuming it never caught on to see what the opppsite would be.
Also in the first case can Islam still exist