paladin742:

cisnowflake:

All cultures advanced overtime. Modern Western culture is more based around Enlightenment values than it is around Christian fundamentalism. That’s not to say that those people don’t still exist in our culture, because of course they do, but they’re a minority.

The values of the Enlightenment are, by and large, an attempt to retain the values of Christianity without the religion itself. It has largely failed, and some the modern Utopian thinking that inevitably leads to horror can be laid at it’s feet.