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I honestly think that Christianity did a lot of good for society as it provides fear for those who don't have their own internal moral compass. Fear of God prevents them from making society collapse.I was refering to a society living in a world that is totally devoid of any knowledge of Christianity and its values..
Our society Hacky, is still influenced by the Christian values it was founded on, Plus My Church and the Orthodox (just watch Mar Mari Enamual presentation, also to a lesser extent some of the Protastants Churchs have pushed to uphold the Christian values whenever the need arose, such as abortion, same sex marriage, uthiansia, which is what has helped to keep matters (somewhat in check), even amongst athiests.
Trying to uphold the Christian values in our society, is the reason why my Church has made some mortal enemies.
But, I don't think it's really about religion. Morality existed before we had Christianity. It existed before we had the Torah. If morality didn't exist then humans wouldn't have survived.
Mesopotamian Sumerians religion pre-dates Abrahamic religions, but they weren't just killed each other for no reason. They had a functioning society that created the written word.
Pagans built some of the most advanced structures that are still around today. And they did that because they could function with morality.
Ancient Egypt even had a functioning society with functioning economy and respect for everyone in their society. Sure, there was conflicts still, like any society. But it turns out that the whole slave thing was a myth pushed by people that didn't like the Egyptians. And Egypt was actually decent and moral without the one Abrahamic God.
Humans have a natural inclination for conflict. But we also have a natural inclination to help and protect each other. That may seem counter to each other, but it's not really. We developed morals to protect those in our tribe and sometimes that protection results in conflict with other tribes when we battle for resources.
Even religious do this. But they believe they are battling for the souls.