Without Christianity there is no modern world

A simple fact that cannot be contradicted.

Wednesday, December 25, 2024 by Ferdinand III
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The modern world was formed from European Christianity. There were no 'dark ages', only our present dark and feeble minds cannot peer into the dim past and discern the energy, innovation, trials and errors of the 'Middle Ages', from 500 AD to 1500 AD. As if our own 'modern era' is one bereft of cult superstition or stupidity. Cults of secular materialism named 'science', better called quackery, including evolution, which forwards the remarkably ignorant claim that magic produced 2 million genes per chromosomal pair, or globaloneywarming in which a trace chemical 95% emitted by Gaia, causes 'weather', makes a lie out of that assertion. In the age of rampant, accessible technology, our own fettered minds are rather dark indeed.

There is no modern world without Christianity. Period.

Unlike the fascistic death and sex cult of Islam, Christianity formed every single basis of modernity including science, social mores, human rights, a legal code, art, architecture, and even social civility. Democracy itself, now prone to mob rule and control by a corrupt plutocratic elite comes out of Christianity and its untold number of activists, who tore down the world of the Lord and Baron and granted the average person respect and some share of the power and spoils. Christianity is the only faith in history which provides a moral and rational argument for the protection of basic human rights, granted to each unique individual human by a power beyond our ken.

In the ancient world the idea of the individual did not exist. In all states and empires, it was the communal which was important, not the individual. The Roman symbol of the Fasces, the root of word Fascist, was a bundle of sticks [the individual], wrapped around an axe [the state]. All modern conceptions of individual rights and freedoms are only found in Christianity. It was the Christian worldview of the sanctity of life, free-will and freedom which fought against tyranny, lawlessness and centralized power and arbitrary force. The ancient world had no idea about free-will, individual or natural law rights and a legal code applicable across society regardless of rank.

Individual rights and the creation of a justice system, based on natural law rights [God-granted rights]; equally applied to all members of society regardless of rank and power; emanated from Christianity and only Christianity. In the early 13^th century, a Catholic and royal judge Henry de Bracton (d. 1268) wrote a massive tome on the principles of law and justice which formed the basis of Common Law and all of it was premised on Christian rationality and argumentation germinating from natural law rights. Bracton wrote that jurisprudence or an applied legal code was ‘the science of the just and unjust’. In this worldview even kings, despots, and usurpers of power reside under God and the law, ‘because the law makes the king. For there is no king where will rules rather than the law.’

Broader notions about human rights and science of course came only from Christianity, not the materialistic Enlightenment. One only has to read Christ's teachings to understand that the poor, the dispossessed, the forsaken, the sick, the wounded, and the diseased are only protected by Christian theology. Evolution views the weak as fodder which should be killed. Secular Marxism has nothing to say about morality, laws, charity, or rights. Slavery was abolished only by Christians, not materialists or Moslems. The ‘Enlightenment’ a supposed age of 'reason' produced witch-burnings, the French Revolution with its ‘reign of terror’ and the 20th century bloodbath of Atheist-Marxism. The dialectical fascisms of Islam, Evolution and Marxism are in essence cults of death.

Science as well, is of course premised on Christian rationalism and faith. True scientists are not the quacks of today who scream that trace chemicals cause weather [then torture the data and lie to support their positions]; or that 48 feet of library bookshelf code named DNA was formed by 'chance' and that the mouse became Mozart. Real scientists follow methods and procedures set forth by the innovators of the Middle Ages. All of the founders of modern science, including but certainly not limited to Newton, Faraday, Pascal, even Galileo et al., used faith to aid their science. Since Christianity developed science, there has never been, and is not today a 'conflict' between the two. [See here a link for the world's top scientists, past and present, who were Christian.]

There is precious little which is positive in the cult fascisms of Islam, Evolution, Secularism, or Marxism. Yet the 'elite', the media, the 'scientists', the 'secular thinkers', all pronounce these cults as 'superior', with the formation of the iPad world a direct derivative of their 'incredible achievements'. In today's world lies are science, fraud is fact, and up is down. At some point the pendulum will swing back again from the current age of darkness to something hopefully more intelligent and apposite.

Christian scientists and thinkers in the Middle Ages

Make me a similar list of Moslems.....

Sunday, November 17, 2024 by Ferdinand III
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Christian Byzantium and Greek Civilisation

Europe would not have existed without the Christian empire of Byzantium

Sunday, September 24, 2023 by Ferdinand III
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Not only did Christian Byzantium save Europe from the Mahometan Jihad, acting as the protective shield for the West, or the remaining rump of the former Roman empire, it also salvaged ancient Greek philosophy, science and literature.  The Byzantine ‘Renaissance’ from the 9^th to 11^th centuries, was similar to the Carolingian in Francia during the 9^th century, but deeper, broader and more extensively premised on ‘classical’ Greek history and sources.  Universities were developed in Constantinople during the 6^th century, predating ‘Western’ institutions by some 500 years.  Byzantine scholars had long studied the ancient Greeks and reconciled if not incorporated many of their ideas into Christian theology.

The Christian Byzantines or ‘Eastern Romans’ fully embraced their Hellenistic past and culture.  World history would be much different if they had not.  Greek culture and the Koine Greek language suffused and enthused Byzantian society and its development, transmitting ancient Greek ideas and influences to the world.  Copies of ancients were transcribed and stored in massive libraries and archives. 

The largest library in ancient history sat in the Christian Greek city of Alexandria – burned down by the Mahometans in 641 A.D.  Thousands of tonnes of priceless artefacts were destroyed by the Jihad.  Who knows what wisdom, science and philosophy were annihilated in this book burning.  Entirely new perspectives on Christian Byzantium and ancient Greek and Roman history were lost.

Byzantine literature represented a continuation of ancient Greek traditions, replicating the styles of Homer, Lucian and Herodotus.  Byzantine monks collected, translated and copied Greek language texts and classical literature safeguarding them for posterity.  These preserved works were the basis for the Western ‘Renaissance’ of the 15^th century, an event fuelled by Greek refugees fleeing the Mahometan Jihad, who ended up in Italy with their treasures and libraries.

John of Damascus in the 8^th century wrote the ‘Dialectica’, which commented on Aristotle’s ‘Prior Analytics’ and deductive reasoning.  He used this format in the great ‘iconoclasm’ debate of the 8^th century.  If certain principles are known to be factual we can make deductions from that premise.  In the 9^th century Plotinus the Patriarach of Constantinople wrote ‘Amphilocia’ which included a commentary on Aristotle’s ‘Categories’ and concepts of substances and predication.  The 11^th century monk Psellos reintroduced Plato with analysis and commentary, aligning Platonic thought with Christian theology. 

Medicine, much more advanced than the ancient Greek and the ideas of Galen, also flourished in Constantinople, eventually transferred to the West through merchants and the Crusades.  Architecture and new engineering practices abounded during the 1000 years of Byzantine existence.  The Haggia Sophia, built in the 6^th century, was the largest dome ever built and was only imitated and surpassed in Europe in the 14^th and 15^th centuries. 

Roman water works, aqueducts, baths, sewers and fountains providing fresh water dominated major Byzantine cities by 900 A.D.  Such public works did not exist in the West until the 19^th century.  Justinian’s legal codex compiled in the 6^th century, is the basis for Western canon and civil law and directly informs today legal corpus in Western states.  Sundry inventions from the knife and fork, to gunpowder, military inventions, advance art, chemistry, advanced mathematics and governmental organisation, flowed from Byzantium to the West.

The cultural impact of Byzantium on European history was enormous.  It is not an exaggeration to state that the West would not have existed without Christian Byzantium.