All of western civilization was nourished by Christianity. Art, music, learning, human dignity and equality, science.
Being a patron to the arts because you have the wealth to pay the artist does not mean that you promoted the conversation of the arts. Artists will create what ever they are payed to create by the people paying them. The reason the church held the wealth of the time to pay the artists is because they stamped out everyone else that stood in their way.
human dignity and equality
This is soo absurd for religion to claim that I’ll just leave it to understanding just how educated the audience is.
When has religion ever been ahead of the curve from secular society in human rights? It always has to be dragged into the current century its operating in when society starts to see it as irrelevant to the civil conversation.
And the theocracies of atheism and paganism lead the way in atrocities.
Atheist has nothing to do with moral systems. So wrong there.
There are governments, that are not theocratic, that do have body counts. However, they operated exactly the same as theocratic governments, just instead of a deity, they deified the government. They both played by the same barbaric play book. Heretic hunts, outlawing blasphemy, infallibility of the heads of state, fascist regimes, government controlled media, no freedom of speech or the press, promotion of “us vs them” tribalism, isolationist tribal purity, removal of rights to minorities, women, children, and people of the other tribe, and on and on. Yes these governments were not religious, but they definitely were not secular in practice at all. They were religious in practice though.
