Wrong. Rome and Greece contributed, but Western Civilization isn't called "Judeo-Christian" for nothing. And in my 60+ years, with a degree in English Lit and Latin received from a university with very few Marxist profs, I bet I've read at least as many books as you have, most of them classics, in a wide variety of subjects (it wasn't called a "liberal arts" degree for nothing. I don't know about now).
Without Christianity, son, you don't have the pre-eminence of the individual over the state. Read your Roman and Greek philosophers; most were statists who had little regard for the individual, especially the "hoi polloi" or "common man", i.e. us. Or at least, me.
It is Judaism and Christianity that teach that God has a high regard for his creation, and for his people, who He calls by name, and for whom He sacrificed Himself, for each individual soul, each one of us! It is He who grants us individual Liberty, and no mere government may override His will; governments are instituted by Him to protect and safeguard our rights! (My goodness! What idiocy! Give us Communistic Atheism and give us Death!)
From that reverence for God-given Liberty, you get things like, oh, I don't know . . . THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Did Rome and Greece help form the founders' principals and philosophies? Naturally, to some extent. But remember something else: they all agreed that to hold the Republic would require an educated and moral citizenry, and the best system of morality they found was Christianity.
Now, we're wall to wall filled with people who've been "educated" to believe "all religion is equivalently bunk" (well, at least the Christians haven't removed my clitoris, but I guess that's a small and irrelevant matter when judging a religion's merits). And now here we are, on the verge of losing our Republic. Sorry, not sorry -- but this lack of respect for the Judeo-Christian foundations of our civilization, and our being on the verge of losing our Republic, is NOT a coincidence.
Wrong. The western world was built on the Greek and Roman Classics. Read a book sometime.
Wrong. Rome and Greece contributed, but Western Civilization isn't called "Judeo-Christian" for nothing. And in my 60+ years, with a degree in English Lit and Latin received from a university with very few Marxist profs, I bet I've read at least as many books as you have, most of them classics, in a wide variety of subjects (it wasn't called a "liberal arts" degree for nothing. I don't know about now).
Without Christianity, son, you don't have the pre-eminence of the individual over the state. Read your Roman and Greek philosophers; most were statists who had little regard for the individual, especially the "hoi polloi" or "common man", i.e. us. Or at least, me.
It is Judaism and Christianity that teach that God has a high regard for his creation, and for his people, who He calls by name, and for whom He sacrificed Himself, for each individual soul, each one of us! It is He who grants us individual Liberty, and no mere government may override His will; governments are instituted by Him to protect and safeguard our rights! (My goodness! What idiocy! Give us Communistic Atheism and give us Death!)
From that reverence for God-given Liberty, you get things like, oh, I don't know . . . THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Did Rome and Greece help form the founders' principals and philosophies? Naturally, to some extent. But remember something else: they all agreed that to hold the Republic would require an educated and moral citizenry, and the best system of morality they found was Christianity.
Now, we're wall to wall filled with people who've been "educated" to believe "all religion is equivalently bunk" (well, at least the Christians haven't removed my clitoris, but I guess that's a small and irrelevant matter when judging a religion's merits). And now here we are, on the verge of losing our Republic. Sorry, not sorry -- but this lack of respect for the Judeo-Christian foundations of our civilization, and our being on the verge of losing our Republic, is NOT a coincidence.
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