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Which wouldn't have happened if their employers hadn't ripped them off at every opportunity with things like the company towns, or utterly refused to do even the bare minimum to make working conditions safer. Knowing that, is it any wonder that being treated like disposable slaves caused them to...

Except it was exactly those sorts of actions which created unions in the first place. You abuse your workers, and kill them when they complain, you end up with unions; so if anything, you should be condemning those industrialists for ruining things for everyone.

The French Revolution ultimately left the country worse off than it was beforehand, and gave their culture scars that still haven't healed. It was a terrible thing that should have never happened, and while the people were somewhat justified in doing it (as the country had been mismanaged into...

The earliest roots of the scientific method can be traced back to Ancient Greece, to the works of people like Archimedes and Hippocrates. So while it is true that the concept fully matured under the auspice of Christianity, that had more to do with the fact almost nobody wasn't a Christian...

Christianity is not responsible for the creation of western civilization as we know it; rather, western civilization is responsible for creating Christianity. In practical terms, what this means is that we would have been perfectly capable of developing a similar code of ethics and morals...

Honestly, everything that went wrong for the French during World War 2 can be traced back to stupid decisions made by their ruling elite. They weren't cowards; they were led by spoiled brats more interested in soothing their own egos than actually doing their jobs.

I was more talking about how the early Roman church was deeply divided on certain issues; such as the nature of the Trinity, and what should be done with Christians who abandoned their faith in the face of persecution. These divides never really went away, and only grew worse over time; serving...

The Roman Empire should have never established Christianity as its official religion; it was one of the major contributing factors to their eventual collapse, and caused a lot of problems for western civilization later down the road.