I feel the answer in right in front of us, yet passed.....

Not sure if I can advance my thoughts in a manner that represents anything remotely coherent in nature....
But I’ll try.

Religion fails, with me being more familiar with the Judeo-Christian perspectives, is because folks to not adhere to its basic principles.
It is not about the biggest church, organization, enfluncing, sway...no.
And this I believe is why religion is under a perceived assault.

Folks use their beliefs/religion, to govern and promote policies....
The very element our founders escaped from, and tried to write into our system of governance, to avoid that pitfall.

Faith/belief, is a internal journey, that if used in the manner intended, your witness will be the cause in effect that invite others to investigate, join, in that understanding.
It’s not self promotion, no, but self awareness with all our inherent faults and failings.....
Using any religious doctrine to judge others, is asking for failure when those who preach it, don’t adhere to it themselves.

You have just as much sin in the church, as you do out of the church, yet, so many in the congregation look past themselves, while faulting others who don’t proclaim their same faith....

Well golly gee....
Sounds like a parent who doesn’t work, drinks to excess, smokes, swears, while threatening his children with punishment if they do the same.....

These folks have turned off folks to “God”.

Is it any reason it seems false, a lie, hypocrisy?

Then on the opposite spectrum, you have the “anti-religion” who want to force ANY religion out of society....
Preaching tolerance while promoting laws against expression, with adherence to their “moral” standards of equality as long as it’s the same as theirs....

But again, their power, or sway would be a non enitity IF folks used their religion to be a better person THEMSELVES, instead of trying to force it on others....

So much of what is happening around us is because we try and control it, when in all truth, we can’t even control ourselves.

I will use a current event as example.
Who, that has offered ANY advice, or critique, of the caravan coming up Mexico to the USA, leveling charges either way, of the handling, etc, has ever, sent money to organization that can help these folks so they would never have to do this in the first place?

So much of life is spent reacting, only because we didn’t ACT, when we could have made a difference.
But again, when it’s all about us, our own welfare, beliefs, etc, first....
Then what right do we have to deman anything, from anyone else?

Then why didn't Egypt develop into the powerhouse that Great Britain did?

Society is complex and and when looking at ancient societies, we're nothing but detectives trying to piece together a narrative based on clues in this case thousands of years old. It could have been a very simple singular event that caused one society to dominate or it could have been a series of unique events that could never again be duplicated.

My thought is Christianity played a major role because religion was far more vital to every day life back then and the society that dominated was christian based so I see that as more than a coincidence.

"Who, that has offered ANY advice, or critique, of the caravan coming up Mexico to the USA, leveling charges either way, of the handling, etc, has ever, sent money to organization that can help these folks so they would never have to do this in the first place?"

 This is probably the only question that will get any results.

Eegore wrote on 10/30/18 at 06:59:57:


I'm saying every geographical area has its positives and negatives. You can't squeeze water out of a turnip and you can't get water out of a desert. But you can develop trade with neighboring nations assuming there is a level of trust.

As I said, I'm not sure why, but I think Christianity played a major role because it's just too coincidental that the nations that prospered the greatest during the world's fastest industrial growth had Christianity as their dominant religion.

Look at it this way, if human civilizations has been around 200-300,000 years, it's only been in the last couple hundred years where technology took a gigantic leap forward. For 99% of human history, we were barely above stone age when all of a sudden, boom! And that boom took place mostly in Christian nations. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.

Then why didn't Egypt develop into the powerhouse that Great Britain did?


Then why didn't Africa develop into the powerhouse that Great Britain did?

Not developing into a
Powerhouse
Isn't a condemnation of a society.
Motive, reason for living, determine goals. Without goals, it's unimportant to determine ability.
Without ability
Goals become irrelevant.

I didn't say you were.
OP asked a question.
Why is becoming a military powerhouse somehow equivalent to greatness?
Power might be a Greatness
But is that THE measure?
What about some of the American Indian tribes? Were their desires for understanding not great?
What's greatness? Industrialization?
Where are the skyscrapers of Africa?
Weren't there people there long ago?
Where is the African in the history of industrialized countries? What does that say?
There are so many possible answers that it would make a P.H.D. dissertation to even hope to address them.
Interests and goals are based on what people want and what they believe is possible.
Not everyone Wants a battleship.