(July 26, 2018 at 5:01 pm)SteveII Wrote: If you believe everyone is highly valued by God, your worldview must change over time. Things like education and hospitals and social welfare are natural extensions of your worldview
Have you heard of conservative Christian movement in the United States? You know they see healthcare and free education as an Antichrist. Just ask Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum and Tony Perkins and Peter LaBarbera what they think about free education and Obamacare.
(July 26, 2018 at 5:01 pm)SteveII Wrote: I'm not saying if not for Christianity, then we would not have these, but I think that we can find other cultures to make a comparison and it turns out this is a very far-reaching feature of a Christian worldview.
So that means China is much more "Christian" because they are way more into socialism.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
