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] 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?