[No name given]

Without Christianity and Jesus, the world would be a sad miserable place to be.

[Secret Agent Man]

They will be finding out soon.

[bitt]

P

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Christianity invented free will. Think about all the cultures that deny it, beginning with Islam.

And by the way, Fred Reed anticipated the article by several years...

https://www.unz.com/freed/are-white-men-gods-ii/

I love his idea that we should be charging the rest of the world rent for using the benefits of our culture.

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[PGR88]

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

I'm not sure their premise is true

Does the USA still represent "Christianity, capitalism, and free-markets?"

Certainly China, Russia, etc... do not - but have we become just another central-planning, power-seeking and competing global power to them?

[minnesota_bound]

The United States brought freedom to billions of people.
If the USA did not exist then europe would be working on ww4 by now.

[SuperLuminal]

"...the world be without Christianity, capitalism and free markets, and the idea of natural rights?"

Too late!
That is the world that America represents already...

[alexander_busek]

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 [...]

The United Nazi States of Europe would have eventually gotten around to inventing all of those things.

Regards,

[philman_36]

You see this as well?

Censorship works only if you're dumb
They are called influencers, but for the life of me, I can't imagine why.  But Andrew Breitbart knew why and who was behind them and wrote about it in his book  Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World (2011):

When the Soviet Union disintegrated, the battle simply took a different form. Instead of missiles the new weapon was language and education, and the international left had successfully constructed a global infrastructure to get its message out. Schools. Newspapers. Network news. Art. Music. Film. Television. For decades the left understood the importance of education, art, and messaging. Oprah Winfrey gets it. David Geffen gets it. Bono gets it. President Barack Obama gets it. Even Corey Feldman gets it. But the right doesn't. For decades the right felt the Pentagon and the political class and simple common sense could win the day. They were wrong. The left does not win its battles in debate. It doesn't have to. In the twenty-first century, media is everything. The left wins because it controls the narrative. The narrative is controlled by the media. The left is the media. Narrative is everything. I call it the Democrat-Media Complex—and I am at war to gain back control of the American narrative. How things have changed.

[Nervous Tick]

[2Th 2:3-8 NIV]

3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things?

6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.

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* 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work;
* but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so
* till he is taken out of the way.
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8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.

[rlmorel]

[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.