What good had Christianity done to the world since 2000 years ago?

[wynn]

Of course individual and group behavior is quite complex (psychology, sociology). But my main take is that the group leaders set the tone for the group like bird flocks. Then the group being one of the main powers that makes up society, such as political, economic, military or religious will act in such a way to enhance its role. Usually these groups start by having a co-operative type behavior since they are weak and they need to be established. But as soon as they become strong their tactic changes and will lean toward more aggressive behavior so as to keep the status or enhance position. Such a technique is very humanly like. And the leaders are well versed in this technique as individuals(That is how they became leaders in first place), so they use that same game to enhance their groups.

Examples are abounded; just watch how rich people typically resort to arrogance while poor people are more humble like.

Even all religions started in a humble way, and as a matter of fact they all started as a reaction to some injustice in society, slowly negotiating and gaining power. It is only when they became powerful that that their aggressive behavior starts. And that is true for all other power pillars in society. And society as a whole also acts in this fashion and so do nations and group of nations.

Sure, from a psycho-sociological perspective, there is a point about mob mentality. People, when part of a group, will possibly do things (such as acts of extreme aggression) that they would never do on their own.
Over time, this mob mentality can get codified and a person adhering to the codex can manifest mob mentality even when not immediately part of a group.


But here, we are talking about theists. If God exists and is person-like, this means that He is watching all this shit going on in His name done by theists, and is just letting it happen. To boot, He apparently set up and runs the Universe so that non-theists are fully dependent on theists for all input on "God."
This is what I can't quite digest.

 

[Neverfly]

And the difference between a theist and an atheist is just a semantic one, too, yeah.

We were talking about the word, "Winning" as semantics, not atheist vs. theist. How you made this leap is quite mysterious.

 

[Syne]

Also the very first universities in Europe were derived from Islamic culture.

Apparently highly disputed:

"Scholars like Arnold H. Green and Hossein Nasr have argued that starting in the 10th century, some medieval Islamic madrasahs became universities.[22][23] George Makdisi and others,[24] however, argue that the European university has no parallel in the medieval Islamic world.[25] Courtenay et al. partially critique this view by stating similarities between madrasahs and southern European universities.[26] Other scholars regard the university as uniquely European in origin and characteristics.[27][28]

Many scholars (including Makdisi) have argued that early medieval universities were influenced by the religious madrasahs in Al-Andalus, the Emirate of Sicily, and the Middle East (during the Crusades).[29][30][31] Other scholars see this argument as overstated. -wiki (University)​

 

[qsa]

Sure, from a psycho-sociological perspective, there is a point about mob mentality. People, when part of a group, will possibly do things (such as acts of extreme aggression) that they would never do on their own.
Over time, this mob mentality can get codified and a person adhering to the codex can manifest mob mentality even when not immediately part of a group.


But here, we are talking about theists. If God exists and is person-like, this means that He is watching all this shit going on in His name done by theists, and is just letting it happen. To boot, He apparently set up and runs the Universe so that non-theists are fully dependent on theists for all input on "God."
This is what I can't quite digest.

AFAIK, all humans grow up with some kind of religious teaching/indoctrination by parents or society, and that is as a social agenda. Only later individuals will think for themselves and decide. Those theists which like to convert the undecided/atheist people or from other religions are very happy to oblige, because that has a whole lot of credit with god.

It is amusing that theist always collect big credit when they try to convert somebody or do petty help. But the guy, theist or not, who discovers a useful drug seems as not eligible for any credit with god.