(March 2, 2014 at 5:36 am)max-greece Wrote: Brace yourselves for the typical Christian total reinterpretation of history to give Christianity all the credit.
He's following in the footsteps of McDowell and Strobel that because Western Democracies are either majority or at least historically Christian societies, that it follows that Christianity promotes scientific advancement and democracy. This is a classic fallacy of assuming correlation proves causation. Any cursory review of our history shows that enlightenment and liberty had to overcome Christian resistance and that our progress has only been made dragging Christianity kicking and screaming the whole way.
Go to Saudi Arabia? How about Europe of 500 years ago? Hell, the last witch burning didn't happen until the 19th century.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist