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Why Christianity has such a foothold on Western civilization. I am an atheist, so I do not believe in God or in the divinity of Jesus. And although the rise of Christianity can largely be attributed to political forces, I still feel that there must be something inherently special or unique about it for it to be so entrenched in society. Prior belief systems centered on animism (spirits inhabiting everyday objects and animals), polytheism, henotheism (many gods, but only one was supreme), etc., so perhaps Christianity hit the sweet spot where there is a supreme god, yet he has an emissary that was human, so it bridged the gap within the human psyche between the mortal and the divine.