Christianity seems to be unsuitable for Western Civilization.

[Aristus]

I'm saying this as a Christian, now. Someone who is dismayed at the way wealthy white Americans have co-opted Jesus' passionately anti-capitalist, peaceful, merciful ministry, and turned it into a "what's-in-it-for-me?-let's-all-get-rich-and-go-to-Heaven" screed.

Rugged individualists, intractible moralizers, and death-cult crazies really have no place in Christianity.

Look at the cultures of the tribes and nations of the Middle East, where Christianity and its forbear Judaism originated; these cultures learned how to thrive in a place where natural resources are scarce. Food, water, shelter and so on are competed for fiercely. Despite a struggle for these simple items necessary for survival, a struggle that can inspire generations-long blood-feuds, nearly every culture in the region also advocates sharing what you have with others. However much, or more importantly, however little you may have. The obligation to offer hospitality, whether to friend or enemy, is sacred. When someone approaches you with an open right hand, you serve them food, water, coffee, tea, and offer them a safe place to sleep for the night. You have a divine requirement to ensure your guest's safety and comfort. If you read anything at all about ME cultures, you will know that, far from resenting such obligations, most people are proud to honor them and take joy in seeing their guests fed and rested.

Now, like it or not, Western culture, especially American culture, is built around the ideal of "amass as much as you can, take whatever you are able to away from someone else, and guard it fiercely, killing anyone, if you have to, who tries to take it away from you". Churches are not humble upper rooms anymore, but gargantuan glass-and-steel palaces. The preacher is not a humble man wearing simple homespun, and preaching forgiveness and tolerance; but a blue-pompadoured, pink-suit-wearing-Mercedes-driving charlatan who bellows hate, hate, hate from his pulpit, and pours money into the election campaigns of people who promise to legislate that hatred in any way possible.

Christianity has lost its way in the West as a faith, and has instead been put to use as a political tool. The very same was true in fourth-century Rome, when Constantine made Christianity the official faith of the empire. It was all downhill from there.

The West's wealth-centered culture is no place for Christianity.