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There's no denying the place of Christianity in European history, but that doesn't mean that the good things about our societies are due to Christianity.Well, the elimination of slavery, and development of human rights (every human is a 'child of God', whether king or peasant). Which is tied in with the concept of individualism:
* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/27/inventing-indi...
The modern idea of science needed certain metaphysical assumptions that weren't really present in many other religions (and to the extent they were present in philosophy, aspects of said philosophy(s) were often mainstreamed by Christianity (e.g., Aristotle)):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)#Provid...
* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:God_the_Geometer.jpg
And where "science" (or what passed for it at the time) existed elsewhere, it often withered or was snuffed out; the invention of the telescope was transformational in Europe, but not so much in Muslim lands, Mughal India, or Imperial China:
* https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/intellectual-curiosity-...
Various legal forms were promulgated by the Church (including that the authorities themselves were not (notionally) above the law: not something you'll find with (e.g.) the Chinese Emperor), as were universities:
* https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo562094...
And if they were not due to Christianity, I'd say [citation needed] on how they developed otherwise. And more than developed, but became 'mainstream' thinking in many parts of the globe (though certainly not universally, as Chinese Uyghurs are experiencing).
Well, the elimination of slavery, and development of human rights (every human is a 'child of God', whether king or peasant). Which is tied in with the concept of individualism:
* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/27/inventing-indi...
The modern idea of science needed certain metaphysical assumptions that weren't really present in many other religions (and to the extent they were present in philosophy, aspects of said philosophy(s) were often mainstreamed by Christianity (e.g., Aristotle)):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)#Provid...
* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:God_the_Geometer.jpg
And where "science" (or what passed for it at the time) existed elsewhere, it often withered or was snuffed out; the invention of the telescope was transformational in Europe, but not so much in Muslim lands, Mughal India, or Imperial China:
* https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/intellectual-curiosity-...
Various legal forms were promulgated by the Church (including that the authorities themselves were not (notionally) above the law: not something you'll find with (e.g.) the Chinese Emperor), as were universities:
* https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo562094...
And if they were not due to Christianity, I'd say [citation needed] on how they developed otherwise. And more than developed, but became 'mainstream' thinking in many parts of the globe (though certainly not universally, as Chinese Uyghurs are experiencing).