If Christianity Didn't Exist, the Christian Races Would Have Invented It

 Which came first? The christian races, or christianity? Let's play egg and chicken, coming down on the side of blood. 

 I think europe wanted to become more Communist. They wanted to privilege strangers over their own family. They wanted to break Darwin's shackles and become truly treacherous. 

 "Save us, catholic church! You're our only hope!"
 "Stop marrying into the clan, you dumb shits."

 Incapable of liberating themselves from the chains of responsibility and virtue on their own initiative, they hired the church to circumvent it on their behalf, violently if and when necessary. Whipped them into shape, with real rawhide whips.  

 Why steal from other folks' families, don't you know you're supposed to steal from your own? 

 The christian races could have retained loyalty to the clan even with weaker blood ties. There's numerous social technologies which could have let them form pseudo-clans. Including, but not limited to, property rights. They passed up all these and instead full-throatedly yelled for loyalty to church first, second loyalty to throne, and loyalty to their own children last. Communism. 

 Human sacrifice never went away. No higher rejection of Darwin (thus self-love, virtue) than giving your children to the State. However, dead sacrifices can't grow up to pay taxes or die in wars (but I repeat myself). The christian races came up with ingenious ways of sacrificing their children, as signals of fraudulent loyalty, without physically killing them. 

 There was a major fosterage trend, for example. Could have fostered entirely within a clan, based on some tests of shared interests for example, and explicitly did the opposite.
 You don't need to cement an alliance with folk who don't fundamentally hate you. Mutually-beneficial cooperation is cemented by the mutual profits.
 Sending your kids to live alone surrounded by violent strangers is tailor-made to inflame feuds, rather than quench them. Clown world, 500 BC edition. Clown continent. Clown specie. "We can't bring ourselves to bully little timmy and sally enough, send 'em to the mccoys, they won't hold back at all." 

 Everyone who wanted to privilege their own kids over rando strangers hired someone to force them to give their kids away, so they wouldn't be close enough to favour.
 Sending their kids away to be tortured by pedophiles is merely the latest form of child sacrifice that leaves the victim alive. It's become so intense it's destroying their fertility even if it doesn't destroy their lives. Total symbolic death, just short of physical death. Oh well. Billions must die.

 The State wants to be closely associated with as many paedocidal traitors as possible because the State, too, hates itself.