Religion and faith do a LOT of good for a people and their Culture.
It can also be twisted to some serious evil. Jim Jones comes to mind as an obvious example.
I don’t have the answer to this. All I know is we see outright evil all around us, by almost anyone’s metrics, and we are doing NOTHING about it but praying and hoping things get better.
History shows that the Founders were Christians and Deists. They did NOT sit around praying that the British would just let them be or trying to figure out how to hide their activities from their British masters...
“History shows that the Founders were Christians and Deists. They did NOT sit around praying that the British would just let them be or trying to figure out how to hide their activities from their British masters...”
Well, most of them did sit around and do their share of praying but yes, that’s mostly true. The founders though, were very judicious as to how they made their decision to go to war; how they made the case for Independence to the American people; also very judicious as to the timing of the decision to go to war. And even with all that it was still a third of the people were loyalists meaning they backed the British; another third didn’t committ either way and just waited to see who won; and the other third were the Patriots who fought and won the Revolution.
Remember, it was the British that made the first overt acts of war against the American People at Lexington and Concord.
So lets see, in WWI the Germans made the first overt acts of war; in WWII the Germans and Japanese made the first overt acts of war; in the Civil War the Confederacy made the first overt acts of war; in the Revolutionary War the British made the first overt acts of war. What do they all have in common, they all lost. Why, because they lost the moral high ground. It is very important that the enemies of the Constitution, the progressive socialist democrats make the first overt act of war, then we unquestionably have the moral high ground and its always best to occupy all of the high ground, moral or other, in any conflict.