Thanks for your reply. I always enjoy the exchange.
One other point. An open and free society is an easy target for evil and duplicity. Our Christian values make us susceptible to the appeal of politicians to do things “for the children, the elderly, the downtrodden, etc.” It is the delivery system we ignore to our peril.
Exactly.
On a related note, an open and free society often appears more evil, more greedy, corrupt, and selfish — this contributes to our vulnerability to appeals for the government to “do something.”
Never a good idea.
The terrorists, for example, claim to be motivated, in part, by the fact that America culture is “evil.” To the extent our culture is “evil,” it’s not because our culture is open and free, but because, like all human beings, we share in the nature that, left to its own devices, tends toward evil.
In an open and free society, the nature of the human condition may be more apparent. But it is not more evil in the quantitative sense.