What would the world look like without America? Where exactly would the world be without Christianity, capitalism and free markets, and the idea of natural rights?

American Thinker ^ | 1/04/2022 | Eric Utter

[SeekAndFind]

Where exactly would the world be without Christianity, capitalism and free markets, and the idea of natural rights? Without...America?

Would assembly lines and mass production have ever been thought of? Efficiencies of scale? Abundant and affordable goods of all kinds? What could have brought billions out of poverty in the past several decades? Would someone have eventually discovered electricity? Who would have invented dental floss, hearing aids, cardiac defibrillators, radiocarbon dating, traffic lights, crash test dummies, lasers, LEDs, chemotherapy, microwave ovens, video games, mobile phones, fiber optic cables, email, personal computers, skyscrapers, suspension bridges, airplanes, the phonograph, the light bulb, the internet, and the Global Positioning System, just to name a few of the mind-boggling number of American inventions that have so greatly benefited mankind humankind?

There is much talk today among the woke about "appropriation" and "reparations." Appropriation?! Virtually everyone else in the world has appropriated American inventions, technology, and ideas. (Or stolen them outright, as is the case with China.) Perhaps reparations are due to the United States from all the countries that have immeasurably benefited from its excellence and largess, and the countless millions who would not otherwise be alive today.

It is true that the American founders themselves gleaned much from Europe's Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason. Thomas Jefferson utilized some of John Locke's ideas in composing the Declaration of Independence, particularly Locke's notion of natural rights. Sadly, today, Western nations are intent on rushing headlong into what can only be called the Confusion, or the Age of Stupidity. Where once we pondered and debated the accumulated wisdom of human history and man's relation to God and His universe, today we can't even acknowledge the existence of two sexes or identify the things that differentiate them.

[DeplorablePaul]

Agreed. I just watched a WW I documentary om tubi which made the point that life was good in Europe prior to the war. Individual freedom was growing. Prosperity was widespread. Industry and science was expanding. There had been peace since 1870. Despite all the analysis of the causes, WW I was a gigantic family fight. Really a paroxysm of stupidity and miscalculation with dire, long term consequences.

[rlmorel]

[jmcenanly]

More likely, WWII would have never ended. It would simply be a constant state of combat between constantly shifting alliances.

[himno hero]

Martin Luther is /was significant contributor to the John Wayne individuality.
It’s his thoughts that publicized the concepts of self identification, self actualization, self realization etc etc all leading into the capitalist. All supplementing the necessary innovation and inventions we see in the development of sciences and patents.
A lot was happening back then.

[himno hero]

That’s very true.

[BrandtMichaels]

I’m sorry to say I really don’t like you Chad. Maybe I’m being unfair but for a relative newbie trying to fit in your pride gives you away. Maybe someday you will understand and even learn to become a critical thinker but for now you are quick with an answer, unfortunately the WRONG answer.

God, not Christianity, gave us free will. It’s right there in the 3rd chapter of Genesis which you may have read (and likely discarded kinda like Elon Musk, too smart for their own good).

So if you want to be a critical thinker you’ll need to start by disproving the Bible. Archaeology would be a good place to start. Or Dr. Walt Brown, he’s no Heinlein, but maybe you could disprove his hydroplate theory on creationscience.com. More science that any can shake a stick at in Part 1. Part 2 describes the hydroplate theory, and part 3 is Q & A.

I hope someday I can learn to like you Chad but so far you are like so many freepers whose own pride has tied their own showstrings.

Good day sir!

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Better question: What would the world be like without the British Empire?

[oldtech]

The day will come when the Tribulation begins & some folks will get a taste of what it can be like without much of the influence of Christianity. The time to be thinking about that is now, if one hasn’t already.