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How Christianity Remade the World: Tom Holland Interview

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What Compelled You to Write Dominion?

Holland: To live in a Western country is to live in a society still utterly saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions. The more I tried to write about these people using English, the more I discovered that I was looking at them through a glass darkly. And it took me time to realize that actually it was Christianity that was kind of providing the distortion. It brought home to me the fact that if even the very language that I use is so saturated in Christian assumptions, how much more must everything else be?

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