RE: Christianity's Valuable Contributions to Humanity: An Examination of Militant Atheism
June 22, 2023 at 4:30 pm
Lol. So, in other words, you have no names. I didn't ask for an "explanation". I asked for names.
The idea that there were no educated Christians in the West for the last 250 years is a laughable absurdity.
Even today, we know there are many educated Christians in the West. Yes, here and there, atheism or agnosticism has some influence. Yet, it is so even today. Far more, it was true in the 18th Century. You do know Wilberforce was a Christian Evangelist, right?
And do I need to quote Lincoln again: "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
Gee, sounds like quite the "Deist" to me. ROFL. Btw, Deists are Theists, not Atheists. Antony Flew recently gave up Atheism, and became a Deist.
The idea that there were no educated Christians in the West for the last 250 years is a laughable absurdity.
Even today, we know there are many educated Christians in the West. Yes, here and there, atheism or agnosticism has some influence. Yet, it is so even today. Far more, it was true in the 18th Century. You do know Wilberforce was a Christian Evangelist, right?
And do I need to quote Lincoln again: "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
Gee, sounds like quite the "Deist" to me. ROFL. Btw, Deists are Theists, not Atheists. Antony Flew recently gave up Atheism, and became a Deist.
