Did you know that 105 of the first 107 colleges founded in the American Colonies were Christian?
Did you know that the reason why we can read today--the idea of a public education, which started with "hornbooks" (Google it) was because it was an expectation of Protestants that every person should be capable of reading, thinking, and understanding?
So many misconceptions stem from television and the bias from today's college professors.
The fact is, Christianity advanced knowledge. No other religion did the same. It is no coincidence that Europe came out on top, scientifically. It wasn't dumb luck. It was the influence of Christianity encouraging exploration and understanding, which was considered to be an essential part of a thinking mind.
Most of our history books contain more than a little anti-Christian bias....
In Europe it helped that the Protestant religions did not have a big list of proscribed books and authors. In Galileo’s case it was protestant scientists who kept his works alive after the Church forbade them.