Why are Christian countries that only ones that could make the leap to becoming first world without outside help?

Why are Christian countries that only ones that could make the leap to becoming first world without outside help?

christianity was the predominant religion in a region of the world which was agriculturally rich and in a good position for trade in the pre-industrial era

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>implying Christianity had an effect on the dichotomy between the developed and undeveloped world a whole 1900 years after its inception
Christian countries had a shitty quality of life just like pretty much everywhere else for the majority of their existence.

Yeah but the difference is that Europe eventually advanced while every other continent remained shitty. The only countries that managed to advance (Japan) only managed to do so with the intervention of Christian countries.

>Yeah but the difference is that Europe eventually advanced while every other continent remained shitty
And why do you assume that Christianity had anything to do with that? It's not like every European country had it good. If anything, the more devout half of the continent has a far shittier quality of life.
>The only countries that managed to advance (Japan) only managed to do so with the intervention of Christian countries.
You just blow in from middle school history class kid? Japan's success is the result of centralizing itself for the sake of opposing said foreign countries. Ethiopia's been Christian longer than nearly every other country on this earth and it's still a shit hole.

>Christian countries
those were feudal shitholes that LARPED as romans.

>Japan's success is the result of centralizing itself for the sake of opposing said foreign countries
Japan was a third world shithole until after WW2 where they were rapidly industrialized with western aid. People in early 1900s Japan were barely living any better than people in 1600s Japan.

People in early 1900s Europe were probably living worse than in 1600s Europe

>Japan was a third world shithole until after WW2 where they were rapidly industrialized with western aid.

Bullshit. They industrialized before that and adopted Western institutions and knowledge.

>Ethiopia's been Christian longer than nearly every other country on this earth and it's still a shit hole.
Aren't they like one of the coolest countries on the continent, and Addis Ababa is an african Bruxelles?

>Ethiopia's been Christian longer than nearly every other country on this earth and it's still a shit hole.
It's actually one of the most successful African countries. I mean it's not first world but it's not the Congo either.

>using third world in a pre Cold War context
back to whichever fundamentalist garbage heap spawned you.

>It's actually one of the most successful African countries.
Maybe at one point in history, but it's been incredibly shit for the past 40 years or so. Gabon, Botswana, and South Africa are all far better off than Ethiopia rn.

>Aren't they like one of the coolest countries on the continent
Maybe. Depends on what you like. Cool is pretty subjective, and a poor measure of economic development regardless.
>Addis Ababa is an african Bruxelles
Addis Ababa is not at all indicative the lifestyle experienced throughout the rest of the country. This is pretty much the case with every third world country. If I just picked you up and plopped you into the nicest area of Lagos, you'd be shocked to learn that you were in a country with an overall lower quality of life than Iraq.

>Addis Ababa is not at all indicative the lifestyle experienced throughout the rest of the country.
Meant capital of the African Union and all those other orgs.
And yes, you will saying im mixing economics with politics, but still.

Conversely if I plopped you in the shittiest area of Detroit you'd be shocked you're in the wealthiest country in the world. Not sure what your point is other than countries have bad and good areas?

>Not sure what your point is other than countries have bad and good areas?
This is exactly my point. That you can't base the quality of life of an entire country on one city.

>Christian
Weird way os spelling white. See Ethiopia and South America. Civilization is not about theology, it’s about race.

manifest destiny x age of exploration via a combination of european topography and genetics

Japan? Korea? Taiwan? Singapore? Hong Kong? Oman? UAE? Saudi-Arabia? Lebanon? Turkey? Israel?

Then how did the U.S. become successful without ever being fully white?

white anglo-germanics made the decisions

Literally not single one of those countries managed to industrialize without the help of Europe and the US. Half of them aren't even first world countries, Turkey, Oman? Really?

>europe
>agriculturally rich

Not even close, half of Europe is shitty rocky soil

What the fuck are you talking about? Britain is the only country that industrialised 'without help' (though obviously they wouldn't have without the influence of the rest of the world), everywhere else, Christian or otherwise, adopted from them in the 19th century or later.