From Jesus Christ to Harvey Weinstein, historian explains how Christianity shaped the western world - a podcast by 5 News

Historian and author Tom Holland's latest work 'Dominion' concludes that without Christianity the Western world wouldn't be what it is today.

Not many books can start with St Paul and end with Harvey Weinstein but that's what Tom Holland does with Dominion: the Making of the Western Mind.

From human rights to sexual morality, the historian says we have forgotten how Christianity has shaped what we now think of as western civilisation.

Without the dominant influence of the followers of one man in Palestine two thousand years ago, he claims, the ideas and values we take for granted simply wouldn't exist.

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