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There's a correlation between the establishment of Christianity and freedom, though. I'll have to research it some more. I couldn't just put up another thread that says "Islam is oppressive". It's true, but it's not the point I'm making.
Actually no, I made the connection, but I want to conduct further research to back it up.
It's pretty obvious from the article that where Christianity departs, chaos reigns, and where it steps in, freedom gets a foothold.
But one piece of evidence is never enough.
Though the connection I have made is that where Christianity makes inroads, it appears to me that increased liberty follows.
It depends on what you mean by liberty. I am pretty sure the indigenous peoples of many countries did not think or feel that christianity was liberating.
I mean liberty to vote, to go without a veil, to go to school. Basic liberty. Liberty to live.
I'm not talking about Cortez, Columbus, and the Catholic Church plundering the New World. That's a different class and a different time.
Though the connection I have made is that where Christianity makes inroads, it appears to me that increased liberty follows.
It depends on what you mean by liberty. I am pretty sure the indigenous peoples of many countries did not think or feel that christianity was liberating.
Defend.
There's a correlation between the establishment of Christianity and freedom, though. I'll have to research it some more. I couldn't just put up another thread that says "Islam is oppressive". It's true, but it's not the point I'm making.
And Judaism? Christianity is after all based on that religion. Buddhists would fall under you criteria too for not wearing a veil, equal opportunity schooling for both sexes, basic liberty and liberty to live. I am also pretty sure atheists would be pretty freedom loving too.
I mean liberty to vote, to go without a veil, to go to school. Basic liberty. Liberty to live.
I'm not talking about Cortez, Columbus, and the Catholic Church plundering the New World. That's a different class and a different time.
As far as "the Catholic Church plundering the New World", it was the Catholic Church that OBJECTED to the exploitation and mistreatment of the people of the New World.
It depends on what you mean by liberty. I am pretty sure the indigenous peoples of many countries did not think or feel that christianity was liberating.
Defend.
Defend.....you have got to be kidding.
How about we start with the American Indians. Do you think Christianity did them any good?
How About the Aboriginals in Australia. Australia is still dealing with the lost/stolen children.
These people had religion all of the own.....
Defend.
Defend.....you have got to be kidding.
How about we start with the American Indians. Do you think Christianity did them any good?
How About the Aboriginals in Australia. Australia is still dealing with the lost/stolen children.
These people had religion all of the own.....
I think you need to stop conflating Christianity with the settling of North America by European immigrants. And yes, I DO think Christianity did the North American aborigines good, thank you. I spent my childhood summers visiting Indian reservations with my grandmother, before the advent of casinos. The poverty some of those people lived in was appalling, and it was largely the intervention and charity of the churches that did anything for them.
Perhaps you'd like to explain, with evidence, how Christianity is responsible for stolen children in Australia. Unless, of course, you are once again conflating Christianity with settlement. Despite what you've obviously been taught to believe, it's not Christianity's fault that it was always an impossibility for primitive peoples to keep their territory undiscovered by the rest of the world, nor is it Christianity's fault that, once discovered, those territories would come under dispute, as all land does eventually.
You guys really don't care much for people in general, do you? You hate them so much that you will not acknowledge those things that help them.
Freedom and equality are Christian tenets. In countries where Christianity blooms, so do they. In countries where Christianity, specifically, is demonized and oppressed, so is freedom and equality.
England and Europe have gone downhill since their migration away from Christianity. The article does support that, and anyone who denies that is just a lying anti-Christian propagandist.
Heil.
You do know some of the most brutal dictatorships are in sub-Saharan Africa, yes?About one-quarter of the global Christian population can now be found in sub-Saharan Africa
Freedom and equality are Christian tenets. In countries where Christianity blooms, so do they.
Though the connection I have made is that where Christianity makes inroads, it appears to me that increased liberty follows.
There's a correlation between the establishment of Christianity and freedom, though.
I'll have to research it some more.
I couldn't just put up another thread that says "Islam is oppressive". It's true, but it's not the point I'm making.
"Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You guys really don't care much for people in general, do you? You hate them so much that you will not acknowledge those things that help them.
Freedom and equality are Christian tenets. In countries where Christianity blooms, so do they. In countries where Christianity, specifically, is demonized and oppressed, so is freedom and equality.
England and Europe have gone downhill since their migration away from Christianity. The article does support that, and anyone who denies that is just a lying anti-Christian propagandist.
Heil.
I mean liberty to vote, to go without a veil, to go to school. Basic liberty. Liberty to live.
I'm not talking about Cortez, Columbus, and the Catholic Church plundering the New World. That's a different class and a different time.
As far as "the Catholic Church plundering the New World", it was the Catholic Church that OBJECTED to the exploitation and mistreatment of the people of the New World.
Defend.
Defend.....you have got to be kidding.
How about we start with the American Indians. Do you think Christianity did them any good?
How About the Aboriginals in Australia. Australia is still dealing with the lost/stolen children.
These people had religion all of the own.....
I think you need to stop conflating Christianity with the settling of North America by European immigrants. And yes, I DO think Christianity did the North American aborigines good, thank you. I spent my childhood summers visiting Indian reservations with my grandmother, before the advent of casinos. The poverty some of those people lived in was appalling, and it was largely the intervention and charity of the churches that did anything for them.
Perhaps you'd like to explain, with evidence, how Christianity is responsible for stolen children in Australia. Unless, of course, you are once again conflating Christianity with settlement. Despite what you've obviously been taught to believe, it's not Christianity's fault that it was always an impossibility for primitive peoples to keep their territory undiscovered by the rest of the world, nor is it Christianity's fault that, once discovered, those territories would come under dispute, as all land does eventually.
Good for you, you found a novelist who agrees with you. Big woop. The idea that communism follows atheism is really stupid.
Because people of THIS GENERATION actually still support ideologies like those fronted by Pol Pot and Stalin.
