There was a study done by China awhile back to find the source of the West’s extreme leap beyond all other civilizations during the last 1000 years or so. The study took many years and the answer was not surprising to anyone with a grasp of historical events and context. What did they find? The Catholic Church. I first heard of this study from an interview on NPR several years ago. It has since disappeared from the internet. notes by Paul List in book: Mount Doom, the prophecy of Tolkien revealed
