Western civilization really do be doing fuck all for shy of around 1000 years and the end of it coincides with the collapse of the church-state.

Feel free to pull this apart by telling me how one european nation had very progressive values where they allowed other denominations to vote and invented the water-wheel.

I'll listen to it. I believe you. It's not "wrong", it just sounds like the kind of reductive and pedantic that comes from someone wearing a trillby and drinking $14 whiskey out of a plastic cup. It sounds highly specific and missing the larger trend where a chunk of time just gets collectively referred to as "the end of times".