Gods exist like numbers exist. And they exist for similar purposes: to provide u

Gods exist like numbers exist. And they exist for similar purposes: to provide us with decidability on matters which we cannot directly sense, perceive, compare, and judge, without such measures.

Western Law (conflict resolution) is separate from Western Religion (festivals)

Western civilization like western law, and western politics, and western science, is (was) empirical.

The meaningful content of western christianity is the extension of kinship trust to non kin.

This extension of trust requires we teach humility and skepticism.

This empiricism requires we teach skepticism

Testimony, jury, judge, natural, common discovered law requires we testify truthfully.

We developed testimony, jury, senate, debate, reason, rationalism, science and now, ‘complete science’ (testimonialism).

We developed reason, philosophy, natural law, and science because we spoke truthfully.

We developed a religion that assisted in the practice of skepticism, humility, and truthfulness.

Moreover, every time we have a great war, we evolve quickly by reformation after it.

This is why we do not stagnate like all other civilizations:

There is no faster way to evolve a people than through truth, science, natural common law, a multitude of independent polities, and the capacity for conflict between them.

The west was not first, but it is fastest.