What has Islam or Christianity given the world in the past 100 years?

Question

Aside from stories about individual miracles, souls saved, etc, how have either of the two major monotheistic faiths benefitted the world as a whole?

Answer 1

I let a Muslim field the Muslim response. Here are just a few examples of people who are Christians that have made the world a better place in some way or another.

Sixpence None The Richer
Oskar Schindler
Roger Delgado
Ann B. Davis
Corrie Ten Boom
The Menonites
Covenant House
C.S. Lewis
Johnny Cash
The Salvation Army
George Washington Carver
Mister Rogers
Fr. Maximilian Kolbe
Florence Nightingale
Frankiln D. Roosevelt
Dick Smothers (The Smothers Brothers)
Winston Churchhill
The Guy That Invented Post-It Notes
Rosa Parks
Dr. Rev.Martin Luther King Jr.
J.R.Tolkien

How has atheism benefitted the world in the last 100 years?

100 million people dead due to an aethistic system called communism.

And people who trash Mother Teresa are a puzzle. I guess they're so full of hate they can't have a rational thought. Hitler was not a Christian, he wanted to eliminate Christianity after WWII and was involved in the occult. His favorite philosopher was Fredrich Nieztche, an atheist who died screaming in an insane asylum he was god

Answer 2

I think enough good answers have been give already. I suppose Nazis like to go to Jewish NGs and ask "What good has Judaism given the world in the last 100 years?"

Christians have proven their worth.

As for the Hitler commnent...

"Christianity is an invention of sick brains...The war will be over one day. I shall then consider that my life's final task will be to solve the religious problem." [Hitler’s Table Talk, p. 142-4]

"Christianity is the biggest lie the Jews ever told humanity"

-- Adolf Hitler, 13 December 1941.

"So it's not opportune to hurl ourselves now into a struggle with the Churches. The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death," -- Adolf Hitler, 14 October 1941.

A Christian would not do the things Hitler did. According to a biography of Hitler published in 1933 Bevor Hitler Kam (Before Hitler Came) Hitler had been deeply involved in occult secret societies like the Thule, which based their teachings on Theosophy.

Answer 3

Mother Teresa wasn't bad, although she wasn't the saint she was painted out to be, all her patients had pretty bad treatment conditions, and her main goal was not treatment, but the conversion to Catholicism. There have been some fine individuals of both religions.

Unfortunately most are judgmental as the many Christians in this thread not representing their religion very well shows. They could at least learn a little about religious history before declaring their religion more peaceful than Islam. If you count radical Muslim groups as representative of Islam, than you would have to count Hitler as representative of Christianity.

Answer 4

allow me positioned it this way: i'm a muslim, and that i realized that the more effective powerful Muslim i'm, the more effective powerful i'd be to my mom and my spouse. to guage Islam view of girls human beings, you may want to study what Islam says. lots of as we talk's muslim practices are in accordance with lack of expertise, or lack of educating no longer coz of Islam. someone aspect out the rape that could want to opt to have 4 witnesses: this isn't actual. you want 4 witnesses to have the adultery punishment on the guy. yet, as a rape crime, it really is as a lot because the courtroom to guage it and get the right punishment, that could attain execution. Proving the case and assigning the punishment is left open to the courtroom. Rape change into no longer uncomplicated in previous days this why you received't discover sparkling punishment about it. Many crimes were left to the courtroom (Ta'zeer) as situations and crimes evolve through the years.

Answer 5

Islam and Christianity gives faiths, hope, guidance and sanctuarity, where else its the people embracing the religions (shall I say the so called Christians and Muslims) that creates intolerence and thus resulted in wars and hate.

Answer 6

Deterred mankind from the educated rights of humanity which is the secular way of saying the soul as you phrase it. Someday all the superstitious foolishness will be strained and the salvageable will be put into human terms and mankind will profit all the better for it.
Science is the godless godsend that has made life bearable and taught us there is a better way.

Answer 7

At least on the Christian side of things, money towards medicine and education in poor countries, these of course come with the lectures on how God will save you etc etc. That aside, not much.

Answer 8

Let's see, Islam has given us radical Islam and a host of problems associated with it. As for Christianity, check out the book "What has Christianity ever Done for Us?" by Jonathan Hill at http://ctlibrary.com/38723

Answer 9

Great scientists like Johannes KEPLER saw God's magnificance and constantly gave praise to God Almighty for his wonderful laws built into nature. He was a creationist.

So was Isaac NEWTON.......and he wrote 1 million words about his LITERAL belief in the Scripture. He was a creationist.
" I have a fundamental belief in the Word of God....I study the Bible daily". - Isaac Newton

The electromagnetic equations of James Clerk Maxwell attest to the Magnificant mathematical inginuity of the Creator.
He was a Creationist.


I could go on with Louis Pasteur and many other Chistians.....

Its only the ignorant who can't figure it out. Please go get an education pal.

Answer 10

Christianity gave us the Civil Rights Movement. More generally, it gave us the philosophical foundation for liberal democracy.