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To: GenXteacher

Except that Israel is the foundation of western civilization, so they made western civilization great, not the other way around.

And China and India were exceptionally rich and powerful over the ages. It was only around the 1800’s that they went to pot.


Technology is the edge that made modern western civilization dominant. And that comes from science and the scientific method. Which comes from rational thought. And rational thought is one of the gifts that came from Judaism (see Israel). 


44 posted on 04/14/2012 7:10:52 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: gogogodzilla

You are correct in stating that ancient Israel and Judaism are wellsprings of the west; in your earlier post I assumed wrongly that you referred to the modern nation. The eastern civilizations, though, had stagnated well before the 1800s, actually- China somewhat further back into the 1600s, India in the 1700s. And neither contributed greatly to the development of Western Civilization. It is worthy to note that the scientific method and other appurtenances of the 1600s are due to Christian acceptance that reason came from God, which Locke noted when writing of government.


45 posted on 04/14/2012 7:54:11 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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