
Tom Holland on Christianity’s enduring legacy
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What Is the Difference Between Christianity and the Other Religions?
I think there is a much greater ambivalence among Western empires than say among the caliphate Muslim empires. With the Reformation, this concept of a personal bond with the God becomes democratized. Monasteries get closed down. Every individual Protestant has a religio with God. And so a twofold understanding of what an English comes to be called religion that gets emphasized to religion.
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