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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Now, this seems like a pretty obvious oversimplification, if the implication is that Christian doctrine is inherently imbued with some magic that causes adherents to emerge from their dogmatic cocoon as free-thinking secularists. I suppose your argument on this point would have to be that "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's" is somehow crucial to developing societies with a wall of sorts between Church and State. I don't think that comes close to covering it.
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Yeah, it is such a gross oversimplification that I almost didn't post it. However, I think it is enough of a stark difference to observe significant difference in general principle.
The Christian orthopraxy of charity, and an almost doctrinal regard for the dignity of the person set the groundwork for societies with regards for a liberty of a type never seen before, and laid the groundwork for the highly resilient and responsive democratic governments of the last 300 years.