Forwarding article to Charlie Sheen.
Its all vary twue. Its the root of the G7 ...excepting Japan ... that rode together to the Crusades....
Absolutely no doubt about it. The Greeks developed some great political and philosophical ideas, but Athens didn’t last long because they didn’t have a religion that would enable them to hold on to it.
Christopher Dawson has written several excellent books on this subject.
Put it another way. Christianity develops the idea of free will, which is dependent upon moral behavior, within a rational universe. Islam has zero idea of free will, and Allah is not rational. Confucianism was a reasonably good way of running things, which let people rise through the ranks by virtue of their scholarship, but it did not have Christianity’s ideas about free will and moral choice.
Yes, God blesses the faithful with prosperity.
Luke 12:29-34 (Phi) “You must not set your heart on what you eat or drink, nor must you live in a state of anxiety. The whole heathen world is busy about getting food and drink, and your Father knows well enough that you need such things. No, set your heart on his kingdom, and your food and drink will come as a matter of course... Sell your possessions and give the money away to those in need. Get yourselves purses that never grow old, inexhaustible treasure in Heaven, where no thief can ever reach it, or moth destroy it. For where your treasure is, you may be certain that your heart will be there too!”
Seems to be a lifetime ago that I leaned this in a freshman Western Civilization class in college. I seriously doubt any college would deliver that message today, but it is the fact none the less.
Depend upon men for your liberties and be enslaved. Obama.
Francis Schaeffer was documenting this 50 years ago.
Confucius say, “A pearl before swine is still a pearl.”
“....the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West is so powerful.”
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Main target for liberals, communists and Islam.
Ding ding ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Forwarding this article to the Mad Muslim Terrorist pretending to be the POTUS desecrating Our White House as we type this message!
As I mention in the essay that formed the inspiration for the book:
"But it took another philosopher to highlight and to put into play one of the most destructive ideas to emerge in modern times.""Friedrich Nietzsche was also an atheist. But he saw God not as an invention, but as a casualty. He wrote in 1886: "The greatest event in recent times - that 'God is Dead,' that the belief in the Christian God is no longer tenable - is beginning to cast its first shadows upon Europe." The Christian God, he wrote, would no longer stand in the way of the development of the New Man who Nietzsche said would be ‘beyond good and evil’. Nietzsche knew that in Europe, the decline of religion as a guide to conscience and morality would leave a huge vacuum. Who or what would fill that vacuum? "
"Nietzsche thought that the most likely candidate would be what he called the 'Will to Power,' which he felt offered a better and more persuasive explanation of human behavior than either Marx or Freud. In place of religious belief, there would be secular ideology. The very concept of good and evil would be discarded as the product of weak and inferior minds."
"But above all, Nietzsche believed that the Will to Power would produce a new kind of messiah, uninhibited by religious sanctions, without moral restraint of any kind, and with an unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind."
A lot of what's happening today can only make sense if seen in that light.
Thought you’d enjoy this.
“The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life was what made possible the emergence of capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics. We don’t have any doubt about this.”
Tell that to Schumer, Franken, Soros, Harvard, the Brookings Institution, et. al; and keep your head down.
Thus the clandestine hatred for George W. Bush, and Sarah Palin.
Johnny Suntrade
To be more specific, it’s Protestantism.. or God Himself that made us a success. The same cannot be said of predominantly Catholic countries.
The Chinese appear to be reinventing the wheel.
One must feel some concern for the health and safety of prominent Wenzhou business leader, Mr Hanping Zhang.
Each of these works came to a similar conclusion--even in those early years of the Republic.
One should note, however, that to find an American who, over the past several decades, read these important documents, would be rare.
In 1775, Burke advised his colleagues in the Parliament of the astounding economic success of the colonies and traced what he called their "spirit of liberty."
By Frothingham's 1872 history, America'as experiment in liberty, opportunity and prosperity was even more pronounced, and Frothingham discusses "the Chrisian idea of man" as having been essential to its development.
Sadly, Americans have been "dumbed down" by a monopoly education establishment whose controllers effectively censored the ideas of liberty from the nation's schools and public discourse.
That "hiding" of the founding ideas and of such writings from school children and the general public has contributed to an effective "erasing" of the national memory of the truly miraculous progress from tyranny to liberty which took place on the American continent, culminating in the 1776 Declaration and 1787's "People's" Constitution.