An Apt Reminder of Christianity’s Unique Impact on Human Civilization

November 26, 2025

The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, an international, interdisciplinary movement based in the UK, is working for a more flourishing and prosperous world for families, communities and nations. They have just released a new and very brief video explaining an important angle from human history.

It describes how the power of reason in classical antiquity and the Resurrection of Christ through Christianity joined to build the wonder of the modern world that we all experience and benefit from today.

The video begins with this statement: “It has been said that our civilization is a miracle, yet we seldom pause to understand why.” This is true.

It then correctly explains how our civilization grew out of the reasoning of the Athenian philosophers who explored the meaning (and answers) to three essential questions:

How should we organize society?
How do we live the good life?
What does it mean to be human?

These questions, and their answers, flowing from the ancient Age of Reason, gave us important concepts like democracy and the republic, as ancient Greece gave way to an expanding Roman Empire and all its marvels. The video explains, “Their influence endures in the very fabric of our nations’ roads, aqueducts and architecture.” Adding importantly, “But there is more to our foundations than the inheritance of Greece and Rome.”

The video then expresses that “at another moment in history when all seemed lost, a prophet in Bethlehem was born.” It is no accident that everyone knows who this is, without mentioning His name. Over the next several decades, “stamped out brutally by the juggernaut of state power that was the Roman Empire, His followers started to whisper a revolutionary word: Resurrection.”

It was the cross of Christ, and His world-changing resurrection from the grave, that along with reason (a Judeo-Christian ideal), transformed the world into a “civilization that holds that every individual human life is of infinite value, and that each person should live their life in freedom.” Of course, Jesus’ resurrection did far more than that. Having overcome death and sin, He reconciled heaven and earth. But ARC’s observation is not without merit.

This resurrection movement created a civilization “where service and humility are prized and where forgiveness and reconciliation are possible.” Christianity and classical antiquity also created a “scientific brilliance and artistic genius” that helped create the wonder of the modern world.

The video concludes,

The classical world – beauty and reason – united with the power of the resurrection. And ever since, these ideas have fused in unique ways to give us our inheritance.

ARC correctly states that today is the time to remember a truth “that is too easily forgotten.” This is a good reminder for believers of all nations.

You can see this surprising video here, and share it with your family: