Do you know that Western Cartesian philosophy was started by a Christian? Read the following from Rene Descartes – “Meditations on First Philosophy” (1641)

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To the Most Wise and Illustrious Men: The Dean and Doctors Of the Sacred Faculty of Theology in Paris.

The motive which induces me to present to you this Treatise is so excellent, and, when you become acquainted with its design, I am convinced that you will also have so excellent a motive for taking it under your protection, that I feel that I cannot do better, in order to render it in some sort acceptable to you, than in a few words to state what have set myself to do.

I have always considered that the two questions respecting God and the Soul were the chief of those that ought to be demonstrated by philosophical rather than theological argument. For although it is quite enough for us faithful ones to accept by means of faith the fact that the human soul does not perish with the body, and that God exists, it certainly does not seem possible to persuade infidels of any religion, indeed, we may say, of any moral virtue, unless, to begin with, we prove these two facts by means of the natural reason. ..