What good is it?

In response to the Roe overturn yesterday, a young lady on Twitter asked an interesting question that has stuck with me:

“Has anything good ever come out of Christianity?”

A simple, out of the mouths of babes, kind of question.  I have to admit, I’m hard pressed to think of anything.  Maybe feelings of solace, for those who feel otherwise hopeless in this life, and think they have nowhere else to turn??  But other than such mental comfort, what real good has Christianity ever produced?  On the contrary, it’s showcased a lot of not-so-good role modeling.

If you stand back and look at it, the religion has remarkably survived, even thrived, on hearsay (word of mouth) and rather flimsy circumstantial evidence.  Objectively, there is no direct evidence of any of its claims, including that of the rather bipolar God it portrays.

To me, the whole biblical narrative is rather depressing.  Jesus being treated really badly by his contemporaries.  Stories of rape (which is, btw, how Jesus’s life got started) and other sexual perversions.  Threats of Hell for non-believers and what it takes to self-preserve (attain Heaven); self-preservation being a basal instinct.  Seriously, what is there to like about the religion?  Seems kinda useless to me, but… (yes, that’s just me).

Here's the question: Can you think of anything good that has ever come out of Christianity?  I’m listening.