And of course the reason the Enlightenment has taught us to trash our own history, to say that Christianity is part of the problem, is that it has a rival eschatology to promote. It couldn't all Christianity to claim that world history turned its great corner when Jesus of Nazareth died and rose again, because it wanted to claim that world history turned it's corner in Europe in the eighteenth century. "All that went before", it says, "is superstition and mumbo-jumbo, We have now seen the great light, and our modern science, technology, philosophy and politics have ushered in the new order of the ages."
How God Became King, p163
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