This is a non-sequitur argument. I have read the book. Go read it and read for yourself the specific fact-by-fact argument on the Catholic Church built western civilization. Not just in ideas by the great Catholic philosophers but also the massive movements in philanthropy, universities, charitable organizations, spendthrift habits, arts, sciences, sculpture, literature, architecture, and shaped the culture of our times. There sis the Catholic Church and then there is everything else.
White people did well before Christianity, after Christianity started, after the Catholic denomination gained power, and after the Catholic denomination lost power.
It seems to have something to do with white people, because I look at 500 years of protestant Christianity here, and 500 years of Catholic Christianity to the South, and I see some things related to science and such.
Orville and Wilbur Wright were actually secret Catholics. That’s how they gained access to Vatican archives to find Geovanni Ghinovagelli’s plans from 1427 for a working flying popemobile.