Who or what do you blame most for the decline of Western Civilization?
Since it's behind, here's a case for Christianity (esp protestantism): each person has a soul and can go to Heaven; Christians want to save
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as many people as possible, irrespective of their race; Protestants believe every person can have a personal relationship with God--no need
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for Church hierarchy. Basically the equality of the relationship with God plus the desire for conversion led us to this point.
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but no it's really not all of Christianity as a whole from day one. It's the expression/outcome of very specific heresies.
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as combined in a double-helix with enlightenment-era philosophical simplifications with respect to anthropological commonalities.
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https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Millennium-Revolutionary-Millenarians-Anarchists/dp/0195004566 … https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj4q-_e1u7OAhUDrB4KHeLrBGgQFggjMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmises.org%2Ffiles%2F12160pdf%2Fdownload%3Ftoken%3DF08f-Cvw&usg=AFQjCNHtibZE9WCjrOE3yUoWG7uozz-ZtA&sig2=XRodBobwrFm1MCWhCJE0Ng … http://www.jstor.org/stable/2711630
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I think it's very specific heresies not all of Christianity + dessicated anthropology of early modernism (Social Contractarian.....
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...approach philosophical anthropology, which was also Kantian; very dessicated) + yes certain influences, sure.
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IMO technology mainly contributes for reasons MM discussed: it masks decline elsewhere.
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