Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
It's quite funny when you think about it, personal freedoms have gone up from the days of feudalism until today, and in the same period of time the power of christianity has gone down
Not really, the high point of Christianity in terms of its social influence was probably around the mid-seventeenth century.

Around then, the more hardline Christians were fighting for their freedoms, while atheists like Thomas Hobbes were writing works to justify absolute monarchs.