David McCullough, "Morse at the Louvre" 

Complete and utter nonsense. Technological AND humanistic progress happened precisely against the Xtian religion! There is nothing in Xtianity that would give birth to modern democracy, to the modern sciences, etc... in fact it was thanks to Xtianity that Europe retrograded until the Renaissance! Leonard and Michelangelo would have been killed by the church if they were openly caught dissecting cadavers! Those of other faiths or of no faith were constantly forced to convert and/or prosecuted! Under Xtianity the only 'rights' bestowed was that of the 'divine right' of kings (of which the pope was one), everyone else had no 'rights', especially not the general populace. There is no line you can draw from the bible to the modern Occidental 1st world government systems...! The disingenuous and wilful ignorance of your post does all of humanity in general and David McCullough in particular a great disservice. Shame on you, for soiling the memory of this wonderful man and all of those who have pushed back against your backwards, human-sacrifice-loving bronze-age goat herder mythology!