Claiming "the Bible directly and profoundly contributed to the rise of the West", because the West developed when the Bible was around, is the 'cum hoc ergo propter hoc' fallacy ("with this, therefore because of this" - Latin). It is also special pleading for a primary role of one aspect of many societies.

Various individuals saying things like "Christian beliefs provided the rationale, and faith the motive energy for western technology." and "... the biblical worldview was indeed the key to understanding Western technology" does not make those simple declarative statements true.

The emphasis on "Western civilisation" is clutching at a fading notion.

It took a while to realise what the author was writing about - not until the fourth paragraph is the author identified, and the title of Vishal Mangalwadi's book is "The Book that Made YOUR World", or in full "The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization".

The Bible is responsible for Western science in the same way that smallpox is responsible for vaccination.

I have not read the book under review, and have no special intention of doing so - hence I can only comment on the article itself.
I find it hard to imagine a more contrived load of nonsense, and it comes as no surprise to note the author's background as sketched at the end of the article. The author is clearly used to a compliant and captive audience.
There are far too many non-sequiturs in the article to even begin a comprehensive critique - so many indeed that I find it staggering that the author lays claim to lecturing in philosophy (a discipline that itself owes nothing to the bible)- I would however simply state that if that familiar compendium of myth and legend collectively known as 'the bible' lays claim to all that is good in the world, it must equally lay claim to all that is bad - and there is, has been, and will comntinue to be plenty of that. The fundamental force for such things as universal suffrage, universities, public education, public health, stable government, welfare, organized charity, medical research, clean water supplies, food quality control, and indeed just about anything worthwhile in society is a result, and will continue to be a result, of humanism and enlightened collective effort and owes nothing to fairy tales, nonsensical stories of virgin births, 'spirituality', nor indeed to allegedly miraculous intervention by non-existent gods.

not surprising that since many in the West have rejected the bible we now have the rotten fruit of secularism. Babies are murdered simply for convenience, promiscurity is rife, child sexual abuse common place, divorce common, lawlessness and kids growing up without mum and dad. Not surprisingly when you ignore the Designer you end up with one sick society.

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