PoliticalChic
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1. Seems that the mission of militant secularists is to banish religion from the public space. In order for this to happen, history has to be "sanitized," and even lied about. Tales have to be invented...such as "religion is responsible for more deaths than any other cause."
Unfortunately, there are the blind followers who simply accept such fabrications.
2. While it is simple to prove this false, you have to wonder why those hearing such a charge accept it. In my view, they have been prepared for that slander, and don't know that religion is responsible for the advancement of humanity, and the foundations of the Western Civilization.
3. How about the idea of equality?
As long ago as the Middle Ages, the church served as the incubator for many of our most cherished of modern ideas. Clement of Alexandria( c. 150 – c. 215), said this:
"... both slave and free must equally philosophize, whether male or female in sex . . . for the individual whose life is framed as ours is may philosophize without education. whether barbarian, Greek, slave, whether an old man, or a boy, or a woman. For moral self-restraint is common to all human beings who have chosen it. And we admit that the same nature exists in every race, and the same virtue." http://www.sjsu.edu/people/shantanu.phukan/courses/c15/s1/Christians_against_Roman_order.pdf
a. While this is a note about the early church, the Hebrew Bible began the idea, stating that all humans were created in God's image.
b. Note the demand that women be treated as equals: this view was not that of even the most educated citizens of the Roman Empire of the time, or, in fact, of any other great empire of the time.
4. How about the church's movement against slavery?
The same Clement of Alexandria reminded that, since God made every human being "in his image, I would ask you, does it not seem to you monstrous that you human beings who are God's own handiwork-should be subjected to another master, and, even worse, serve a tyrant instead of God, the true king?"
Ibid.
5. Without this emphasis on the moral equality of all people there could not have been the rise of the Western legal tradition, its distinctive feature of equality before the law. Yes, this view took centuries before it was generally recognized, before it was made self-evident that all men were created equal....1776 before it could be so written and not laughed at.
It required a religious culture steeped in the belief that all of mankind was "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."
This could not have occurred without religion.
"Christianity on Trial," Carroll and Shiflett
6. ". The Bible is the wisdom of the West. It is from the precepts of the Bible that the legal systems of the West have been developed-systems, worked out over millennia, for dealing with inequality, with injustice, with greed, reducible t that which Christians call the Golden Rule, and the Jews had propounded as “That which is hateful to you, don not do to your neighbor.”
It is these rules and laws which form a framework which allows the individual foreknowledge of that which is permitted and that which is forbidden."
David Mamet, "The Secret Knowledge."
Unfortunately, there are the blind followers who simply accept such fabrications.
2. While it is simple to prove this false, you have to wonder why those hearing such a charge accept it. In my view, they have been prepared for that slander, and don't know that religion is responsible for the advancement of humanity, and the foundations of the Western Civilization.
3. How about the idea of equality?
As long ago as the Middle Ages, the church served as the incubator for many of our most cherished of modern ideas. Clement of Alexandria( c. 150 – c. 215), said this:
"... both slave and free must equally philosophize, whether male or female in sex . . . for the individual whose life is framed as ours is may philosophize without education. whether barbarian, Greek, slave, whether an old man, or a boy, or a woman. For moral self-restraint is common to all human beings who have chosen it. And we admit that the same nature exists in every race, and the same virtue." http://www.sjsu.edu/people/shantanu.phukan/courses/c15/s1/Christians_against_Roman_order.pdf
a. While this is a note about the early church, the Hebrew Bible began the idea, stating that all humans were created in God's image.
b. Note the demand that women be treated as equals: this view was not that of even the most educated citizens of the Roman Empire of the time, or, in fact, of any other great empire of the time.
4. How about the church's movement against slavery?
The same Clement of Alexandria reminded that, since God made every human being "in his image, I would ask you, does it not seem to you monstrous that you human beings who are God's own handiwork-should be subjected to another master, and, even worse, serve a tyrant instead of God, the true king?"
Ibid.
5. Without this emphasis on the moral equality of all people there could not have been the rise of the Western legal tradition, its distinctive feature of equality before the law. Yes, this view took centuries before it was generally recognized, before it was made self-evident that all men were created equal....1776 before it could be so written and not laughed at.
It required a religious culture steeped in the belief that all of mankind was "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."
This could not have occurred without religion.
"Christianity on Trial," Carroll and Shiflett
6. ". The Bible is the wisdom of the West. It is from the precepts of the Bible that the legal systems of the West have been developed-systems, worked out over millennia, for dealing with inequality, with injustice, with greed, reducible t that which Christians call the Golden Rule, and the Jews had propounded as “That which is hateful to you, don not do to your neighbor.”
It is these rules and laws which form a framework which allows the individual foreknowledge of that which is permitted and that which is forbidden."
David Mamet, "The Secret Knowledge."