If the Baptists take over Western Civilization and make everyone Baptist by law, then after a 1000 years they can say that Baptists did all that was accomplished by all Christians, non-Christians and all of Western Civilization during that period, it is silly thinking.
After a thousand years of Baptist rule, we’d still not be allowed booze on Sunday. Not my idea of great culture.
This is a non-sequitur argument. I have read the book. Go read it and read for yourself the specific fact-by-fact argument on the Catholic Church built western civilization. Not just in ideas by the great Catholic philosophers but also the massive movements in philanthropy, universities, charitable organizations, spendthrift habits, arts, sciences, sculpture, literature, architecture, and shaped the culture of our times. There sis the Catholic Church and then there is everything else.
Without the Catholic Church there would be no United States. Columbus and the rest of the great exployers were Catholic.