For those of you who have ever doubted it, there has been real objective progress in the human condition over most of the world during the last 200 years. Here is the evidence:
So, all the world's countries are healthier (have longer life expectancies) than they did 200 years ago, and nearly all of them are wealthier, too. Thanks to ideas and inventions from Western Civilization. The Civilization that Christianity launched, and even now that the Church has been largely put in its place, maintains. The Civilization in which people can still be moved by surprise events like this one, done in a shopping mall's food court:
And what culture gave rise to Christian West? The people who think like this:
So, to all who are not offended by public displays of Christian and Jewish religiosity: Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas!
To everyone else, Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas, you ingrates!
And to those of you who actually are Christians, it isn't Christmas yet. It's Advent.
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A blessed Advent and joyous Christmas to you and yours.
And also to you and yours!
Of course, the criticism of the West by the Jihadi-Takfiris is not that the West has made people poor. It is that the West has made people sinful. More on that in another post, perhaps.
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