Who Gets the Credit for Western Civilisation: Christianity or Europeans? By Caldron Pool and Ben  Davis.

Western civilisation is often regarded as the greatest and most successful civilisation the world has ever known. It’s a claim that few would seriously dispute. Even today, its appeal is still evident in global migration patterns. There’s a reason why the flow only ever goes one way. …

Western civilisation is the product of the Christian religion working on the European peoples for more than 1,500 years. As such, it is the accumulated work of successive Christian generations, labouring to reshape and sanctify their laws, institutions, and cultures in accordance with the faith they profess.

 

 

When Christianity was first introduced in Europe, it did not erase the European people and everything they were and loved. Instead, the Christian faith worked within and alongside them, refining their distinctive traits, customs, culture, and communities, and orienting them towards what is good and beautiful. …

The Western world would not survive the loss of Christianity, nor would it survive the loss of the peoples among whom it historically took root. Western civilisation is the product of the former shaping and forming the latter. Lose one, and you lose the other.

hat-tip Stephen Neil