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When worldviews are incompatible there is no “multi” of anything. You either kill off one or the other....and it looks like the Swedes will allow their culture to be destroyed and put into the dustbin of history.

Unless they kick all muslims out and outlaw the insane-—like polygamy and homosexual “marriage”. When you destroy your Traditions and History by removing the ONLY RELIGION which created the country-—Christianity which rose it to its height and created the greatest, freest cultures in history because it embraces Free Will and Individualism——throw it out for irrational atheism, satanism, islam, or whatever. Right Reason and Natural Laws are essential for Modern Science and Rational thought and Freedom.

But without Virtue (a rational religion which is only Christianity) there is no possibility of Freedom. As Dostoevsky stated, (and he was a genius), without God, everything is permissible. That means culture will collapse when all laws are destroyed.

I like to use the analogy of a neighborhood where people of different cultures live in their own homes. The homes are like nations, they are free to live their lives as they wish, and they can be good neighbors.

Multiculturalism is basically forcing all of these people to live under one roof, and with it, comes inevitable tension and there will be constant arguing about how things in the house should be run, and inevitably, things will get violent.

Susie, how many times have I caught you asking Christianity to be something that the bible does not claim it can be?

As attractive as that might sound as a plan, “I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus’ name.”

Christians have a useful role to play, but God didn’t even put them here for the primary purpose of giving the world good governments. Even that’s secondary to the evangelistic witness role of Christianity. As C. S. Lewis put it, we don’t tout the stairway to heaven as a shortcut to the drugstore.

And Susie, I apologize if I have been overly harsh or come across like I have been pounding hard on trivia. That fails to reflect Jesus too. However failing to tell the truth isn’t good either.

The bible guarantees us that we won’t ever see such an “ideal” as you’ve envisioned. And that is a hard limit. No amount of prayer and human effort will pump a nation up to being all Christian, something that isn’t biblically defined anyhow. What can happen is an empirically high prevalence of Christian faith in the population of a country, which will then help to carry it to desirable earthly goals with some simulacrum of the technically unobtainable state that you’re calling “right reason.”

But if we have not thereby established a demonstration that Jesus saves and that the gospel explains how, then we might as well have whistled Dixie... and that’s the blunt truth.

So in a way I agree and in a way I disagree. It’s like Jesus asked one of His questioners “Why do you call Me ‘good’?” He’s better than good, He’s perfect, He’s the means by which anything else can have any goodness. And we have to participate in that, if we do, on His terms, not worldly terms.