For instance...Art? The modern legal system (based on the 10 Commandments)? Politics?
What's your opinion?
2007-04-17 10:29:34 · 26 answers · asked by AnswerBot 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Christianity was one of the primary causes of the Dark Ages and slowed humanity's technological advancements dramatically. Who knows where we could be now if not for the Church's torturing of learned men like DiVinci and Galileo because their scientific hypothesis' did not conform to Scripture.
2007-04-17 10:36:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'll go with the notion of the individual, especially as championed by Christian enlightenment thinkers. The idea that each person has a unique and immortal soul was not altogether new, but Christianity put salvation of the individual above all else, be it the community, the nation, or other group structure. Where Roman emperors and Roman people made sacrifices for the the health of the state, Christians celebrated Christ's sacrifice for each individual. The Christian focus on the welfare of individual souls frames much of our social and governmental structures, everything from the protections of individual liberty enshrined in the U.S. constitution to the Oprah-like infatuation with each person's emotional well-being.
Also, I can't believe you are getting attacked for this question. Well, it is R&S, so maybe I can believe it.
2007-04-17 10:44:17 · answer #2 · answered by z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our Legal system has nothing to do with the 10 Commandments. How were you allowed to graduate from High School?
Christianity's greatest contribution?
Getting out of the way, for the most part, after power was wrested from the Church and given back to the people so that NON-CHRISTIAN CONCEPTS like Democracy, human rights, individual rights, secular laws, a secular government system, a secular legal system could bring us out of the Dark Ages and into the modern age.
2007-04-17 10:38:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its the other way around. western Culture had and have the greatest influence on Christianity.
2007-04-17 10:35:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You need to get out more . Christianity started in the Middle
East and still thrive there today and thru out Europe & the UK
Plus it is spreading in China like white on rice , since our
Lord brought his Word there . In India It has grown to over 5 million and the projection growth is unbelievably . They
never new a living God before . So what was your excuse
again? Wake Up sleepy and be SAVED.
2007-04-17 10:44:51 · answer #5 · answered by S.O.T.C. 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Romans renamed their faith Christianity, and its new mandatory texts grew to become a base for a great mass of human beings interior the international. Religions going by using the call of Christianity sum as much as be the international's premiere "faith", with 2nd going to the Christian inspired faith of Islam, between different faiths.
2016-12-29 05:11:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The perverse attitude of alot of our population to nudity and sex. There seems to be a great deal of denial in the Christian community to humans as sexual beings. You have to wonder why movies receive R ratings if nudity is involved (not sexuality, just plain old nudity) and yet is only PG when its violence. Someone has some strange priorities if you ask me.
2007-04-17 10:48:51 · answer #7 · answered by Magic One 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
By 'greatest' I assume you mean 'Biggest'. Since there is no example of 'greatest' meaning 'best'.
So I would have to say:
The puritanical views that much of the western culture has had about nudity and sex.
It's absurd and ridiculous.
2007-04-17 10:51:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Taco Bell™
2007-04-17 10:35:03 · answer #9 · answered by Bran McMuffin 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Total War.
2007-04-17 10:32:50 · answer #10 · answered by Armund Steel 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋