The following components went into the creation of the miracle of the Western civilization:
- The understanding that God is one;
- The admiration for the powers of the human intellect and the habit of introspection that ancient Greeks discovered;
- The knowledge that in the beginning was the Word;
- The realization that the kingdom of God is within you.
When these things come together, you have the Western civilization. Science, art, medicine, technology, rights, literary criticism, high-trust societies of complete strangers, universities, nuclear family, representative democracy. They all come out of this mix.
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