western civilization

White nationalists and their ilk seem to have this romanticized view of Europe as this great inventor of everything from vacuum. Richard Spencer states that "To be white is to be a striver, a crusader, an explorer and a conqueror. We build, we produce, we go upward …" And yet, them you look at...

In recent years, theistic apologists, among them Rodney Stark and Dinesh D'Souza, have asserted that our Western Civilization is not only inherently Christian, but as well that all its great hallmarks derive specifically from Christianity. that is, democracy, capitalism, science and even...

Having recently posted on the thread about Tony Blair's attack on atheists, I was reminded of a number of books rwritten in the past few years by Christian intellectuals asserting that Western Civilization owes most of its character to its Christian heritage. Among these are Dinesh D'Souza's...