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Originally Posted by Heidens Bloed
Christianity has been the death to lots of European cultures and customs.
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Actually, it can be argued that the Catholic Church has acted as some sort of depository for lots of European ancient traditions and customs, which we do not know that would have survived in different circumstances.
But most important, the Catholic Church has acted as a force of cohesion among European nations in the face of external aggresions which would have been fatal to much of Europe had it not been because Catholicism provided a common ground ideology to unite against those aggresions.
Take for example the Hunnic and Turkish invasions. Do you really believe that the European nations would have united against them on the basis of some 'racial commonality'? The Ostrogoths didn't seem to have taken this 'racial commonalities' much into account when they submitted to the Huns and join them in the attacks.
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et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
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–Plato–
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