Uh, Church . . . there is a culture war worth fighting!
And it looks like this: The Church is the largest single provider of healthcare in the world, and also the largest single provider of education in the world. The Early Church Fathers successfully campaigned against infanticide , and the same Church Fathers stood up for the rights of women by codifying marriage as a sacrament. The first orphanages were churches, and churches pioneered the first homes for the elderly and the first homes for the disabled . It was the evangelicals of the 19th century who led society to abolish the slave trade (Wilberforce), and those same evangelicals pioneered modern social work (Jane Adams), modern foster care (Charles L. Brace), modern nursing (F. Nightingale), and free health care for the terminally ill (Douglas Macmillan). 100 out of 110 US universities were church founded (including Yale, Princeton, and Harvard), and it was a missionary who pioneered the most successful wo...