>>1843975It wouldn't be easily defined as a percentage, but with its customs and institutions. Humanity has been living with sin since its fall, making it hard to differentiate between societies by their absence of "sin". If we lived in an ecological utopia, we would probably end up breaking it somehow, as we see ourselves breaking the world today. However, that doesn't mean that societies can't be more or less Christian than each other. For instance, the state of simple living and population decline you desire would've had a prescribed social role (monasticism) at one point. However that practice has been in decline even before the enlightenment. Early Jewish law described on what days you could work animals, the variations on crops and land that one was allotted, and of course the fasting and veganism we find in all traditional Abrahamic religions. I would say things really began to take a decisive turn with deists and calvinists, but also further back with the schism of the Church. The crucial part is, is that said "lip service" is encorporated into theology. We know we will never be perfect, but if people tithed, fasted, grew in a humble tradition, and learned to dedicate their lives to something beyond the immediate, that we truly would not live in the same world we see today. I still believe that these values are, like you say, engraved somewhere in our time, but we are nowhere near what a pious society looks like and we may never be. Yet I firmly believ that it will not Christianity, Judaism, or Islam that corrupt the or destroy the world, but those who philosophize, reduce, compromise, and work against them.
