This is such an outlandish statement, it bears further response. It was Christians who established our nation on this continent, it is Christinaity that gives you your freedom, it was Christians who abolished slavery (abolitionist movement), Christian scientists who made the biggest discoveries in history (Newton, Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo, Pasteur, Farraday, etc. etc.), Christian thinkers who had the greatest influence on our founders and founding documents (Locke, Montesquieu, Puffendorf, Grotius, Blackstone), Christians who first settled this land (pilgrims, puritans), Christians who started the first hospitals and orphanages, and on and on.
On the other hand, secular humanism is responsible for 100 million dead in the 20th century under the secular humanist regimes of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Kim Il-Sung, etc. In secular-humanism, the State is God and arbiter of all rights - and when corrupt man becomes the arbiter of rights, mass graves are the result. History proves it. The Salem witch trials resulted in a total of about 18 deaths. Care to debate it some more?
What ever, except possibly a deranged Sunday School teacher, ever gave you the idea that any of those were Christian?
And by the way most of our founders were Deists by belief and nominal Christians because that helped keep the trash under control.
So9
This is such an outlandish statement, it bears further response.As part of an effort to escape a religious Establishment.
It was Christians who established our nation on this continent,Jefferson did not believe in the divinity of Christ. Franklin confessed to doubts. Paine was contemptuous of organized religion. American liberty was by no means an exclusively a Christian effort.
it is Christinaity that gives you your freedom,The Constitution does that.
it was Christians who abolished slavery (abolitionist movement),Some "Christians" justified slavery using the Bible.
Christian scientists who made the biggest discoveries in history (Newton, Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo, Pasteur, Farraday, etc. etc.)Copernicus didn't publish until he was on his deathbed. There's little doubt what he thought of the religious Establishment. As for Galileo......
Christian thinkers who had the greatest influence on our founders and founding documents (Locke, Montesquieu, Puffendorf, Grotius, Blackstone),Paine, Frankin, Jefferson.....
Christians who first settled this land (pilgrims, puritans), Christians who started the first hospitals and orphanages, and on and on.Puritans seeking religious freedom, Penn who was arrested for preaching in London, ......
-Eric