What does freedom look like when there no longer is a geographic frontier to take your dreams to? What does freedom look like when all is city, and there’s no elbow room between you and any faithless neighbors?
Will it look like a Christian counter-culture, a counter kingdom (of God), like in Roman times, when the church grew alongside of the empire and was there to pick up the pieces when that empire collapsed?
We’re not talking about an Amish-like withdrawal leaving the field to the secularists, but we’re instead talking about a fully engaged Christianity that is nonetheless autonomous, distinctive, and faithful.
Would the birth of such a culture lead to an actual war from opponents who would attack it?
“We’re not talking about an Amish-like withdrawal leaving the field to the secularists, but we’re instead talking about a fully engaged Christianity that is nonetheless autonomous, distinctive, and faithful.
Would the birth of such a culture lead to an actual war from opponents who would attack it?”
Only if such a culture actually intends to live free and unmolested from “the opponents.
Otherwise, no.