What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some of its greatest discoveries and advances to scientists who themselves were deeply religious.
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.