It is not hyperbole to note the foundational role Christianity plays in Western civilization

What Have Those Pesky Christians 

Ever Done for Us?

by Peter Smith

The Monty Python film, Life of Brian, has a scene in it where Reg, the leader of a group of Jewish rebels, asks what the Romans have ever done for the Jewish people. The assembled group chip in with ideas one-by-one, undermining the implication that the Romans have brought nothing by hardship to Israel. Reg cuts them off. “All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” he cries. “Brought peace?” asks one rebel. “Oh, peace—shut up!”

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It is not hyperbole to note the foundational role Christianity plays in Western civilization, nor is it ‘extreme’ to recognize the intimate parenting our civilization has in its residual faith. Remove the spiritual dimension from the international Church and you have a wing of the UN or a particularly well-developed NGO. Remove the Church from Western civilization and you have an empty vessel, steering rudderless in the night.


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