@RobertH632@Yeenie_Mcbeenie Yes, ever read about Saint Augustine of Hippo? If you know his story, you’d know there was Buddhist influence in the region since at least the mid 3rd century.
@ElRockruff@Yeenie_Mcbeenie On John Locke, check “Two treatises of government”. Locke thinks morals are derived from an omnipotent god, but can be discovered through reason alone.
Locke didn’t believe in common core Christian ideas; original sin, the Trinity, or the atonement paying for our sins.
@ElRockruff@Yeenie_Mcbeenie Hospital information is too spread out.
Look up King Pandukabhaya and King Ashoka and their founding of public medical centers.
Greece also had public centers like this
Christian hospitals appear in late 300s, during Buddhist influence on the region. Evidenced by Manichaeism.
@ElRockruff@Yeenie_Mcbeenie The article “Nalanda: The university that changed the world” is a good one concerning universities. I would argue that earlier centers of higher learning popped up regularly all over the place, but Nalanda has most of the qualities that people associate with modern universities.
@ElRockruff@Yeenie_Mcbeenie As for modern liberalism, most of its early thinkers wouldn’t be considered Christian to the vast majority of Christians today. While it did come out of the largely Christian Europe, it was coming from unorthodox dissidents who argued the concepts derived through reason alone.
@ElRockruff@Yeenie_Mcbeenie Modern university structures are also first documented in the Buddhist territories, and then spread out to Muslim territories in the West and to other Asian territories in the East.
@5XLGroyper How so? Tell me, when do civilian hospitals start spreading in the Christian world and is it before or after the formation of Manichaeism?
I mention this because the formation and spread of Manichaeism is a strong marker of Buddhist ideas already influencing the region.
@Yeenie_Mcbeenie Christians revolutionized hospitals in the “Western” world around the same time there was an influx of Buddhist influence on the region. Buddhists who had a history of running hospitals in other regions. Oh…