How Christianity Changed the World Book

I worked through this very slowly and shared portions on fb.
Schmidt's book ranks high among my list of important works that set the historical record straight. It is a prodigious achievement. When faced by the facts of history, the host of ill-informed and biased attacks on Christianity fall like blunted spears at the foot of this granite wall of wisdom.

With charts, illustrations, and a prodigious number of ancient and modern citations he shows how Christianity transformed the world in dozens of areas. He discussed the role of the Bible, Christ, the gospel on transforming people, sanctifying human lkife, elevating sexual morality, elevating women to a place of freedom and dignity, inspiring charity and compassion, starting hospitals and health care, elevating universal education, dignifying labour, inspiring scientific advance, securing liberty and justice for all, abolishing slavery, affecting art, architecture, music and literature.

Every person should go through this book or be taught the facts found therein. Every Christian, after reading, will stand straighter and bend less under the irrational attacks of atheism. Every atheist and agnostic should read it.

And all of us, atheists included, should offer profound prayers of thanksgiving to Almighty God who has so profoundly affected our world. Especially those of us in the democratic countries where freedom and individual liberty abound should breathe a sigh of relief that we do not live where other religions such as Islam hold sway. The Bible, the Gospel, the coming of Jesus Christ, his life, teaching, death and resurrection are the greatest gifts of God to our fallen world.