Europeans were just the first to get to most of these things. It could have been the Arabs at one point. They were on a real tear until Islam swept over them and fucked it all up. As a white man, I don't believe it makes me superior to anyone that it happened this way, but at the same time, I'm not going to be made to loathe myself because a bunch of childish jackasses are just jealous.
I've noticed that no one ever mentions, simultaneously, that while the Arab world was making substantial progress in terms of astronomy, all of that same progress was halted with the encroachment of Islam.
It's as if a destructive ideology that one couldn't question impeded all further progress. Imagine that.
Thew world is a better place because of the Western Man. Western culture, dare I say Western Christian culture lifted this world out of the mire of ignorance and brutality that accompanies it.
Europeans were just the first to get to most of these things. It could have been the Arabs at one point. They were on a real tear until Islam swept over them and fucked it all up. As a white man, I don't believe it makes me superior to anyone that it happened this way, but at the same time, I'm not going to be made to loathe myself because a bunch of childish jackasses are just jealous.
Interesting point.
I've noticed that no one ever mentions, simultaneously, that while the Arab world was making substantial progress in terms of astronomy, all of that same progress was halted with the encroachment of Islam.
It's as if a destructive ideology that one couldn't question impeded all further progress. Imagine that.
Yup. We're heading in the same direction right now if we can't stop the tide.
Thew world is a better place because of the Western Man. Western culture, dare I say Western Christian culture lifted this world out of the mire of ignorance and brutality that accompanies it.