Loose Canon's Challenge: Name one great thing Jesus didn't do

Gotta feel really bad for LC, who writes:

Do I sometimes detect a soupcon of hostility toward the singular achievements of Western civilization among those who post comments on Loose Canon?

I assume she means on her message boards, where a random reading does reveal considerable hostility. Most of it seems directed at LC herself. But as LC has cast herself as the defender of all things Christian, that is hardly a surprise. Christianity is not having one of its better periods, at least in America, where it has become the captive of people who won't be happy until there's a cross on the White House lawn.

[Let is pass over a comical error that just might be symbolic. LC wants the link in her piece to take us to a "wonderful" book: The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. Instead it goes to a tortured piece, 'The Left's Coup D'Etat at Harvard,' which argues that Lawrence Summers, who just resigned as president of Harvard, was a bold centrist who was done in by a minority cabal. It's just wonderful to see a complex, nuanced story--a Harvard-level story, if you will--reduced to something that makers sense to the Fox News crowd. So very LC.]

I was about to get slightly serious and crack open Jared Diamond's Gun, Germs, and Steel--winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science for its densely factual, highly original explanation for the dominance of "Christian" cultures--to help me build a response. But then I read a bit more about the Rodney Stark book that makes LC's heart go pitty-pat.

My source isn't the book--I know, I should have exposed what Barbara Bush would call "my beautiful mind" to Stark's brilliance--but Alan Wolfe's review:

Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect," concludes Rodney Stark in his new book, "most of you would not have learned to read and the rest of you would be reading from hand-copied scrolls." I had always known that Jesus Christ was a pretty important person, but I had not quite realized that were it not for him, there would be no one to buy Rodney Stark's books.

Of course. Stark's book is Religious History for Dummies, in which one religion is responsible for Every Good Thing. So Stark seems to argue that Jews, Romans, and Greeks contributed just about nothing to human knowledge. I didn't know there was anyone outside of a madhouse who made broad-brush arguments like that.

According to Stark, the Spanish Inquisition didn't really happen. Galileo seems to have brought his troubles on himself. Latin America was never a Catholic colony. And the "Dark Ages" are a hoax.

Easy to see why LC clutches this tome to her breast. Triumphalism is her battle cry--she's got the best religion. And you don't. It's that simple. For her, Jesus is the Student Council President and the Prom King and Most Likely to Succeed. He's got the whole world--science, philosophy, economics--in his hands. And all that knowledge leads Jesus to one conclusion: Capitalism rocks. Especially as practiced by the neocons who currently rule Washington.

LC never writes about civil war in Iraq and port security in our country and nukes in Iran. Those topics are...unpleasant. Bring on knights in armor, chaste maidens, saints in hair shirts.

Well, on the theory of "different strokes for different folks," I'd drink to that. But wait! What's LC serving in that chalice--Arab blood?