People who give Christianity no credit for improving civilization nevertheless blame it for all the evils it failed to eradicate. To hear its critics, you'd think it had invented torture, persecution, and other survivals from the pre-Christian world. Notoriously licentious popes like Alexander VI would have created no scandal in a pagan world. Such behavior was entirely routine before Christianity set new standards. On the contrary, such pagans are still judged by the standards of their times and honored as heroes.
Christian hypocrisy is bad enough.
But let's not overlook hypocrisy among the critics of Christianity.