Western Civilisation is Christian - all the little symbols you just strung together are Church script, out ideas on the distinction between religious authority and the state are Christian, our ideas on charity, faith and hope. Our very conception of Truth Live in East Asia for a while and notice it
I get that people think charity, faith, and hope are Christian values, but they were pagan values LONG before they were Christian ones, and I'm more of a pagan. Christians taught that you sin and are never good enough. Pagans are different. Sin isn't a thing, and you just try to be the best version
of yourself. Christians couldn't even convert without bringing pagan symbolism into their religion; integrating holidays, symbols, and even certain rituals were integrated into their services. Baptism was similar to ancient pagan purification rites, in which they were cleansed in water.
Pagans offered bread and wine to initiates, and Christians had the Eucharist/Communion, which seemed to be integrated from the pagans ... certainly wasn't the Jews lol Pagan stories influenced the stories told about the Saints who took their gods' places. Ishtar and Tammuz were pagans that were
ressurected before the story of Christ's or even Lazarus's resurrection. The idea of an immortal soul that survives death, present in ancient Egyptian and Babylonian beliefs, was merged into Christian thought from Greek philosophy. Even the cross is shared with the older Ankh and Celtic cross.
I don't see the Western countries as "Christian" but a rip off of the old pagan ways, which were actually a bit more in line with how we should be, instead of following the Bible. I don't believe in a bunch of gods, but I see how Christianity is kind of a rip-off of pagan morals and virtues. You had
to have faith in the old gods. You must give when you can and even have offerings to gods, as well as give to each other. Hope ... that is what giving to gods was for ... hope for a better future. None of that is founded in the Christian faith. It was here long before they were.
After all, look at the Native Americans and the way they were here long before Christians ever came to this soil. They had faith in the Creator. They had to give to each other to survive; instead of using money, they traded. Hope was always there. No hope, no life in any country.