Assumptions that I had grown up with – about how a society should properly be orgnanised, and the principles that it should uphold – were not bred of antiquity, still less of ‘human nature,’ but very distinctively of that civilisation’s Christian past. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, by Tom Holland Tom Holland was raised in a Christian family, and attended Christian Sunday School – until he asked the teacher about a picture of Adam and Eve with dinosaurs. The lack of an answer – not even a bad answer, but any answer – convinced him that Christianity offered … Continue reading →