The historian Niall Ferguson quotes the verdict of a member of the - TopicsExpress



          

The historian Niall Ferguson quotes the verdict of a member of the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences, tasked with finding an explanation for why the West overtook China in the sixteenth century and went on to industrial and scientific greatness. At first, he said, we thought it was because you had better guns than we had. Then we thought it was your political system. Next we thought it was your economic system. But for the past twenty years we have had no doubt: it was your religion. The first three characteristics he identified were: human dignity; freedom and responsibility; and the sanctity of life - a central principle because human beings are in the image of God, therefore human life human life itself is sacred. - See more at: mercatornet/articles/view/how_the_bible_has_shaped_the_west
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 02:37:01 +0000

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