Lijo Scaria

I am here to uncover the truths and bring the light of truth to nescient minds.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Let's be clear: Christianity built Western civilization.

Not as a vague cultural backdrop. As the actual engine.

It all comes down to one sentence: "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free."

Think about what that implies. Truth exists. Truth is one. Truth is knowable. And seeking it isn't rebellion against God. It's worship.

"In the beginning was the Logos." Reason. If the universe was created by a rational mind, then the universe is rational. It follows laws. And those laws can be discovered.

Most civilizations never made that leap. Nature was a battlefield of capricious gods to appease, or an eternal cycle going nowhere, or an illusion to escape. Why would you study the laws of something you don't believe has laws?

Christians believed otherwise. So monks preserved ancient knowledge for a thousand years. The Church gave birth to the university. The Benedictines said "pray and work," turned labor into something sacred, and spread water mills across Europe. Monasteries built some of the first mechanical clocks.

Then came the scientists. Copernicus was a church canon. Kepler said he was thinking God's thoughts after Him. Newton wrote more about theology than physics. Mendel was a friar. Lemaître, the father of the Big Bang theory, was a Catholic priest.

They weren't scientists despite their faith. They were scientists because of it.

Add two more ideas. Time is linear: history has a beginning and is going somewhere, so progress becomes thinkable. And every human is made in the image of God: individual dignity, individual conscience, the worth of the craftsman and the worker.

Put it all together. An intelligible universe. A sacred duty to seek truth. The belief that tomorrow can be better than today. The dignity of work and of every single person.

That's the recipe. Science, then technology, then the Industrial Revolution. It happened in Christian Europe. Not by accident.

We are still living off the interest of that capital. The real question is what happens when we stop believing in the things that produced it.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

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[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@ShanchTrak Genetics plus environment, Germanic tribes had a higher rustic IQ, and Christianity played an environmental role in their development.
Similarly, African Christian countries perform better than other countries with the same level of social and civilizational capital.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@ShanchTrak You yourself affirm that Christianity was the reason behind the emergence of the Germanic tribes as the greatest civilizational force in the world.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@ShanchTrak The concept of the separation of Church and State emerged in the 18th century, but modern scientific progress began as early as the 11th century under the patronage and support of the Catholic Church.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@ShanchTrak But you abandoned your forefathers' technology, science, moral frameworks, and modus vivendi in favour of a modern way of life that emerged within the framework of Protestant Christianity.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@Siree1234567 @Ishodas_Thomman Yes,there were no Ezhava conversions to non-Protestant Syrian Christian communities in 19thcentury Travancore. That was the nature of the prevailing social dynamics in Travancore. This is also mentioned in the autobiography of M.K. Sanu Mash, who came from an elite Ezhava family.

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[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@Ishodas_Thomman Vinil mentions the conversion to the Smc church associated with Palakunnel Mathai Mariam Cathanar, but I couldn't find any other such events. Cathanar was a Mannam product, and a Carmelite, not a typical desathu pattakararan.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@Ishodas_Thomman I have read two of Vinil Paul's books. He predominantly engages with the history of coalitions between Dalits and Protestant missionaries, rather than with Catholics and other Christian denominations. He rarely mentions other Christian missionaries.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@Ishodas_Thomman No, you are wrong. There were rebellions against the upper castes by Mappilas from the mid-eighteenth century onward. Read M. Gangadharan's book titled The Malabar Rebellion. He links these rebellions to the conversion of agrarian labourers to the Mappila community .

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@Ishodas_Thomman They may have converted to the Syrian Church before the 1850s, but such conversions would have been minimal and sporadic. Otherwise, conflicts with the Nairs might have arisen, as happened between Muslim Mappilas and Nairs in southern Malabar.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@Ishodas_Thomman There were caste based conflicts between Nasranis and Ezhavas during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, as recalled by many scholars. Read the autobiography of the Dalit intellectual K. K. Koch, titled Dalithan. These conflicts continued until the 1960s.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@Ishodas_Thomman @RishiJoeSanu That was one reason why Syrian Catholics were not as well educated as non-Catholic Syrian Christians and did not hold positions in major institutions in British India.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@RishiJoeSanu No.White collar North Indian migrants tend to be more intellectually dishonest than their blue collar counterparts, on average. They will feel uncomfortable with the existing socioeconomic hierarchy in the state because of their superiority complex.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@blessmonjoseph @RishiJoeSanu Christian-majority regions have been wealthier than non-Christian regions for centuries

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@vaisravanan @ChristoMalloo Then why don't you embrace Anglo names, support your national team rather than the Indian team, read Whitman, Faulkner, and morisson, respect the contributions of white Christians to humanity, and embrace secularism, multiculturalism, and modernity yourself? You are a hypocrite.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@vaisravanan @ChristoMalloo But an Indian converting to Christianity represents his self-progression. He does not reject the culture of his country but rather abstract gods that have no visible influence on his daily life. In contrast, Indians who migrate to the West reject their concrete national identity.

[Lijo Scaria @LijoP333]

@vaisravanan @ChristoMalloo When an Indian settles in a Western country, they establish a cultural footprint there through their population, behaviour, and other cultural influences. This is a new cultural implantation without necessarily contributing to the productivity of Western countries.