Christians were accused of ‘turning the world upside down’3 and it would seem in that task that they were wholly successful because we live in a world where the weak and victimised are given almost sacral status. Many so-called intellectuals keep pushing the tiresome notion that Christianity engineered the Dark Ages to stifle learning, to sponsor the divine right of kings, and to build religious capital into the walls of oppression. Further, they often spout the view that every advancement of human rights and every progression of human endeavour derives from intellectual seeds sown by the
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