he popular historian made the comments as part of a lively online debate on whether Christianity gave the West its human values with British philosopher and author, A.C. Grayling.
During an often-times heated conversation, Grayling challenged Holland to name one thing that Christianity had introduced that doesn’t have a secular source. Holland responded emphatically, “I think the ideal of lifelong matrimony, I think that is a very distinctive Christian concept. I think the category of what, by the 19th century, is coming to be categorised as homosexuality and heterosexuality – I think they have no precedence. I think the notion of secularism – the idea of there being religions – I think all these are entirely exclusive to Christian civilisation. I think the concept of science as it emerges in the 19th century, I think is entirely exclusive to Christian civilisation.”
The conversation is the latest episode to be released as part of The Big Conversation debate series, moderated by Unbelievable? host, Justin Brierley. The focus of the episode was to explore the impact of Christianity on contemporary society, as Holland unpacks in his new book Dominion.
Holland continued, “…even Anthony, this dogged atheist, who rejects the fact that he owes anything to Christianity, his assumptions about homosexuality and heterosexuality are so deeply rooted, that he assumes that a man sleeping with a man is equivalent to the category of homosexuality –…
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