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To: Kaslin

I view it a bit different.

If you look at the west, you see many accomplishments throughout the nations that were once called the “free industrialized west”. These are basically the G7 nations.
This occurred for only one main reason.
Christianity.

And it was not all christian nations.

It was not the Christians of Rome... they managed to screw up South and Central America.
It was not the Orthodox Christians of the east///// as they were always and still are under assault by the muslims.
But it was the Christians of Great Britain.
This occurred for many reasons foremost being avoiding oppression by their “overlords”. This prompted the creation of their Magna Carta at the height of their first cultural revolution and at the height of the “christian crusades”. This removed them from being serfs and slaves of the British “nobles”
This cornerstone document gave them their rights to own property. Once they could own property, they learned that they could buy and sell property.
As a result, ideas came next. Thus the birth of patents..... inventions AND the development of the sciences.

NO ONE else on the planet did this. No one use created the steps nor the cornerstones of infrastructure that the British Christians did.

These building blocks were modified as the Christians had some reformations, the most noticeable was that of luther.... which gave people their individualism. The concept of self determination occurred. Concepts of individualism, self actualization, self realization, self determination... thusly the formalization and birth of the entrepreneur /capitalist.

All of these reasons are what lead to the industrial revolution which no one else on the planet did. This is that put the GREAT into Great Britain. This is the root of the “civilized” world, the free industrialized west and, the G7.

Conversely no one else on the planet did this.
Not the Indians, not the Chinese, not the africans, not the world of islam.
None of the communalists, the tribalists, the marxists nor muslims could ever create this infrastructure,,,, thusly they are about 800 years behind the west in their development.


2 posted on 12/01/2019 4:35:49 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: himno hero

Great synopsis.


6 posted on 12/01/2019 4:54:47 AM PST by deadrock
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To: himno hero

Actually the grand designs were Catholic and Anglican. Mostly along the banana from London to northern Italy, including the lowland countries and northern France.

Plus you have Catholic Bavaria leading industrialisation in Germany


16 posted on 12/02/2019 3:05:44 AM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: himno hero
The accomplishments in Europe were along the blue-banana axis

and that includes anglican, catholic AND Calvinists

But not only the blue banana -- the data you are basing on is from the 1500s onwards. Prior to that, the Eastern Orthodox area had accomplishments as well

Sorry, but the idea that it was purely Anglican is due to faulty and near sighted review. I'd suggest reading a wider analysis

19 posted on 12/03/2019 4:01:48 AM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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