"I wouldn't say that the West has a hatred of its Christian past, nor that it
ignores the influence of the Church on Western development, but rather only that
it reads a more checkered history there than this one-sided, special-pleading
account. I would say that the West has a debunking suspicion of those who have,
in the name of building the Lord's city here on earth, feathered their nests and
imposed controls on the minds and lives of others (through their schools, their
Inquisitions and intolerance, their alliance of church power with state power,
their conquests and repressions)

As a Christian I don't see that it does
any good to muddle and misrepresent things so catastrophically. As one of my
seminary professors used to say, "It is not clear that muddle-headedness
advances the cause of Christ!"