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Originally Posted by peter12
This is a complicated question as Christianity was/is intended for all people. Its universal doctrine of compassion and dignified freedom was what caused it to spread so rapidly through the Roman Empire.
I personally believe it to be divine truth filtered through unique human institutions, which of course have their own failings.
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Do you mean divine truth literally? Like god's word? And that god didn't build these constructs into us, and instead decided to wait a few hundred thousand years to gift his son to the world before trying to include decency in our society via word of mouth vs imprinting it in our biology?
And for your edit: are you suggesting that Christianity has never successfully had political influence?