What I absolutely detest though - above everything else, every other ideology - is social darwinism: the idea that society is all about dog-eat-dog survival of the fittest in which the weak are considered a useless burden, a drain on the profits of the powerful.
I agree with you there about so called "social darwinism",
@Vouthon. Research into evolution, on the other hand, provides a large body of evidence in contradiction of social darwinism and in support of the notion that cooperation and caring for others was key to our evolutionary success. In fact, there is evidence dating back more than a million years to the age of
Homo erectus that suggests that even that early in our evolutionary history, we were taking care of the sick and wounded, rather than leaving them to die.
I also agree with you about the role Christianity played in redressing the ancient Grecco-Roman notions that might makes right, that the lives of the poor and powerless are not worth as much as the lives of the rich and powerful, and so forth. In my opinion, Christianity reinforced, expanded on, and universalized the social consciousness found in Judaism, much to the benefit of humanity. Without it, we'd be living in a very different world.
This is half off topic here, but I also happen to attribute to Christianity the closely related notion that no one is above the law, not even the king.
