3. The West and the Rest
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The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
Tom Holland argues that the origins of Western culture started with Christian culture. He says it's hard to overemphasize the degree to which Christianity has transformed the whole span of the world. Why do weird people, people like me and probably you, see the world so differently? To find out, we need to go back to late antiquity,. The emergence of an obscure cult that became a world religion. It was born in Palestine and was adopted by the same declining empire that once tried to stamp it out.
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