Europeans saw their own Christian civilization as morally corrupt and war-torn

Evidence

Those Europeans found Europe morally distasteful, with constant internecine wars between so-called Christian princes; with heresy rife, and schism a fact for almost forty years; with confused relations ever apparent between ecclesiastical and secular authority; with charity often non-existent; with marriage made a mockery, and adultery widespread; with lying and unvarnished thievery apparent on every side. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 482

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The term the West masks that the civilization is historically European and Christian; Europeans framed the Ottoman presence as divine punishment for their own Christian sins — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 271; Christian Europe is divided from its beginning between an inner and outer enemy — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 59 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The term the West masks that the civilization is historically European and Christian; Europeans framed the Ottoman presence as divine punishment for their own Christian sins — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 271; Christian Europe is divided from its beginning between an inner and outer enemy — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 59 (+2 more)