[gondramB]

>>
Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity.<<

I value marriage.

And I practice a form of covenant marriage.

But if we talking origins of western civilization its impossible to ignore Greece and Rome and they did not share these principles.

[Irish Rose]

Rome’s glory was always mixed with brutality. Both Rome and Greece were, in their power, imperialistic. They also practiced infanticide, abandoning unwanted children to die of starvation and exposure. They were powerful and advanced in many things, but no model for morality.

[-YYZ-]

I read the whole article and never did see any convincing arguments for the claim that the development of western Civilization was inextricably linked to Judaism or Christianity. If things had happened differently, could we have gotten to somewhere like where we are today, still praying to the Roman pantheon?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

But if we talking origins of western civilization its impossible to ignore Greece and Rome and they did not share these principles.

They both persecuted and slaughtered the Jews...

[TradicalRC]

Greece and Rome have fallen along with their Pantheon. Judaism and Christianity are still here.