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An Empire of Reason - Christian Morality
In the year 1 BC, an ordinary, loving husband wrote home to his pregnant wife with a casual instruction: if the child is a girl, expose it. It was normal. It was legal. And it captures the world that reason and law had built — a world where the greatest minds in history looked upon the slave and the unwanted child and saw beings of lesser worth.
This is the story of the third pillar of the West, the one Athens and Rome could not raise: Christian morality, and the revolution it worked in the worth of the human soul. From the image of God stamped upon every person, to the staggering claim that…
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