Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "The Free Press"
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Yes, everything that happened, God allowed to happen. Some things he chose to happen. Do you object to believers having positions of power? This is not wise if you like freedom and human flourishing. Protestantism created the modern libertarian west. We (Protestants) ended slavery; implemented religious freedom, political freedom, academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press FIRST, and thus caused the academic, scientific, technological, and material progress that followed; and most of the rest of the world hasn't caught up with it yet. You like freedom? You like separation of church and state? You're welcome! John 8:32 "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
And what do you propose as an alternative? Atheism? As an organizing principle of society, that has a singularly abysmal track record. From the Jacobin Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, through the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Communist China, and the Pol Pot regime; the result of a society based on atheism has invariably been bloodbath after bloodbath. The USSR alone murdered more of its own civilians than have ever been killed in all the inquisitions, pogroms, and purely religious wars in recorded history, and they only lasted: what? 80 or so years?
Most militant secularists profess an ethic of pragmatism with a goal of human flourishing. As a Christian, I have reason to rationally expect that adherence to the truth will result in the universal good. As a skeptic, you have no corresponding reason to believe anything of the sort. Those two things would, according to your assumptions, only correlate by the wildest of coincidences. If you think you can improve the world, try improving some basket case of a nation to prove your approach is viable, don't demand control of a country that is doing relatively well. Good luck.
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