Christianity and the West―Criticizing Lawrence Auster

Christianity and the West―Criticizing Lawrence Auster

“It was Christianity that became Europe’s unifying ideology and inspired figures from Charlemagne to Columbus.” In 2005, the late conservative writer Lawrence Auster published a response to one of his critics. The critic argued that Christianity had added little or nothing of value to Western culture. Auster disagreed. Since this specific question is seldom discussed, the dispute seems worth revisiting even 20 years after the fact. Auster’s chal…