I wouldn't think too hard on them words. God has never revealed His intentions. He spoke words in the bible, and through the Son, but we take those words to be a blueprint for a society that's unattainable. It would seem that He gave us some general guidelines, no rules of enforcement, and that then He allowed us to evolve, and we are doing fine. Would He have intended that we convert all by force in this country and that we forgo the development of new ideas like tolerance (taught by J.C after all) or prosperity? Not all of us are benevolent, of course, human nature is not consistent. For it takes much ignorance and poverty on a massive scale, to sustain a "godly" police state. In the West there is enough love, scientific discovery, life-saving actions, tolerance, love for freedom. For a "secular" West, we are just fine. Just cause all those mullahs pray and look relaxed, don't mean they are kind and righteous in the eyes of God. It's time to stop accusing ourselves and filling our hearts with Judeo-Christian guilt and hell anxieties. We are doing just fine, we are God's chosen people, and this is how he meant for us to live! Otherwise we'd still be haunting caves and trying to convert infidels through justified violence.
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