A big silent intellectual change of the past quarter century. The West got rich because Westerners are different. People from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic societies are WEIRD. The most important argument: this came from the Catholic church, which banned cousin marriage.

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[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Oh look, it's the tired old hard left view again. How uninteresting.

The West won the world by the superiority of its ideas or values and religion. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The West won the world by the superiority of its ideas or values and religion.

The people who actually won the world, instead of sitting in their mom's basement eating Cheesy Puffs and trying to be an edgelord on social media, knew how they did it. And occasionally they were honest about it.

‘Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim, and they have not’

The west didn't win the world by having better "values" or ideas and especially not by having a better religion. It won by being better at killing.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's the hard left view.

I think out of all the views in the world, that one has quite enough representation already. Do you really need to run around repeating it?

The west's religion converted people all across the planet. Nobody else's did.

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's the hard left view.

Don't be daft. Its the view of the honest imperialists who wrote about it. They weren't shy to admit that they conquered the world through superior ability to kill the natives and steal their stuff. They might have been bastards, but they were honest about their bastardry.

The west's religion converted people all across the planet. Nobody else's did.

😂 😂 😂

Islam says hello.

In any case, I don't dispute that Christianity was spread around the world, by the sword and the Enfield rifle.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Islam was spread by the sword. They didn't send missionaries. They murdered anyone who refused to convert.

Meanwhile Christians send married couples into the bush...20 years later there are Christian nations all over Africa that straight up fight Islam.

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Christianity is 2000 years old. You have literally no idea how it spread for most of that time, do you? For you, history is a mystery, nothing occurred before 2010, right?

Can you even tell me how Rome became christian and what happened to the followers of the old religions who didn't convert? How about the Albigensian Crusade? The conquest of the Inca and Aztec? What about the Belgian Congo?