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Superiority of Christianity: insulting to whom?
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Too many people believe it is insulting to insist that historic "Western" culture and civilization is worth preserving here, let alone worth spreading around the world.
Even apologists for the West - and for the historic Judeo-Christian ethic - seem tongue-tied when asked to come up with definitive reasons for the superiority of Christianity.
But the debate is quite simple. It's just that it's become politically incorrect to come out and explain, explicitly, and unapologetically what it is about Judeo-Christian culture that makes it so superior from say - secular liberalism.
So let me help them along.
For starters Judeo-Christian culture is superior to anything else that has appeared in the last 5-thousand years of human civilization because of its social ethic. Oh, I know the caterwauling from naysayer and "secucrats" - secular-theocrats - has probably hit a feverous pitch right about now - but do I care?
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Nope.
Let me list several ways that Judeo-Christianity has out-preformed every other culture.
1. While ancient cultures were busy worshipping their ancestors and playing with "black magic" and bowing to trees - it seems we've come full circle on that one - it was the Judeo-Christian concept of a Divine Creator that opened up the doors to scientific exploration; the idea being that as created beings, part of a larger creation, the so-called "cultural mandate" of Genesis 1:28 ("...fill the earth and subdue it...") gave mankind a command to explore and develop all the intricacies of that creation.
2. It was also this worldview which built a society where people had extrinsic worth. Most other cultures and religions miss that point, and the resultant low view of humanity has led to unchecked disease, mass poverty, and countless mass killings.
Darwinism, of course, is the ultimate expression of this false way of looking at other people. If those people are truly nothing more than slightly higher manifestations of the animal kingdom, then naturally, abortion, euthanasia and all those other forms of "quality-of-life killings"
And after 50 years of inculcating this monstrous attitude into our children in the public education system, is it any wonder that we are reaping the fruits today as disenfranchised kids and social misfits, ostensibly looking for meaning in their lives, work out the logical implications of that theory by peering down the sights of their gun barrels?
3. Judeo-Christian culture is the only one in human history to reject slavery. And this same culture is also the only one to repudiate the idea of colonialism. And for those of you itching to remind me about slavery in the Christian past, right, but just remember slavery was ultimately repudiated by Christian countries, but not in Islamic, Hindu, Sikh or Secular societies.
4. Western society as we know it today is, by and large, the most prosperous the world has ever known - of course our secucrats wouldn't dream of crediting any of this prosperity to our Christian past. All of this happened by sheer accident, much like the forming of the world.
5. And then there are the institutional legacies. Education and health care, and representative democracy are - all of them - originally products of Christianity. In fact, most of today's "Ivy League" schools and hospitals were started by churches; even the world's largest and most generous charities - again started by Christians, and again were part and parcel of the Christian social ethic.
So there you have it folks. Five simple examples that prove the Judeo-Christian worldview not only works, but is far superior to anything else on the market. And something worth spreading around the world.
Of course, this will never satisfy the secucrats - but then their system is based on enjoying the good fruits of another's labours while they promote their social chaos, spread lies and promote death using up the social capital they have stolen from Christianity.
So really, just who is insulting who?
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Tristan Emmanuel |
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