Middle East were preserving. The Muslim countries were discovering scientific breakthroughs, creating algebra, whilst the West was crushing heretics to death and destroying Greek temples. The Arab countries were preserving Greek texts of Aristotle, Plato and texts that make up

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the majority of Western values such as the politics, laws and values that came from Ancient Greece and reintegrated after the Enlightenment.
When Christian Nationalists and the likes of Nigel Farage use that term, they aren’t defending the theology of the Bible. Instead, they
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are using the term as a civilizational banner. It’s a way to say "our culture" is different from "their culture" without having to use explicitly racial language, effectively turning a religious term into a cultural marker. In essence, the term works by ignoring the map. It
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