Australia’s Macquarie University did a research project exploring how humility went from a despised weakness to an admired social virtue. “[T]he conclusion was clear: the modern Western fondness for humility almost certainly derives from the peculiar impact on Europe of the Judeo-Christian worldview. This is not a ‘religious’ conclusion; Macquarie is a public university…. It is a purely historical finding.” It wasn’t only a man who died on a cross. In a strange way, a culture was dying too, though