History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.441

v7.c99.441

Christianity, doctrines of original sin, of damnation of unbaptized infants, of predestination appear strange to non-christians 1594; A. Robertson asserts that Christian morals have never been practised and that a society would not last for a month if run on the lines of the Sermon on the Mount and Prof. Whitehead and W. R. Mathews appear to agree with him 1481n; Christian people of Europe and America during the last four centuries achieved great wealth and prosperity by throwing to the winds the Sermon on the Mount, by imposing slavery on millions, but after the two world wars they have begun to preach the necessity of benevolence, kindness, restraint, which virtues were emphasized for all men by Bṛ. Up. V. 2 1-3, idea of Karma and Re-incarnation prevailed among Jews and Christians till 551 A D., 1546n; on what happens after death 1550n, writers like Robertson and H. T. A. Fausset hold that Western man is very little sustained or guided by the doctrines of orthodox Christianity and that European civilization is dissolving 1477n, what was Christian in Ch. largely disappeared from 1700 A. D. acc. to C. H. Tawney 1481n.