Germany has not survived the Christian influence of Luther or the Reformation. German universities trained the founding generation of American scholars who in turn established graduate institutions in the United States and henceforth trained the majority of subsequent graduate students in America. The product of this effort captured the intellectual leadership of American higher education, and trained university graduates, including every President, teacher, and newspaper editor over the last century. It remained predominant in Germany and on the Continent, and has most profoundly affected the world view of graduate and undergraduate students throughout the world. European universities remain extremely influential in training the intellectual elite of the world, and rendering the contemporary concept of non-western culture moot.
All nations are children of European ideology today with a few possible exceptions.
At least some of the middle-Eastern nations have the sense to reject the deadly contribution of European philosophy. Though Europe did produce the principle of self-governing states under God, advanced by English Puritans in America, that concept faded, until recently revived by a small core of Reformed thinkers and activists. The lasting widespread European contribution has been the exaltation of the state in a variety of forms, most effectively argued by Marxists, but not exclusively so. With the exception perhaps of some Islamic nations, there is state holding power today offering an alternative to European philosophy. Germany's rejection of its Protestant roots was not met with serious opposition by the Church.