"If Christianity goes, the whole of our culture goes. Then you must start painfully again, and you cannot put on a new culture ready made. You must wait for the grass to grow to feed the sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be made. You must pass through many centuries of barbarism. We should not live to see the new culture, nor would our great-great-great-grandchildren: and if we did, not one of us would be happy in it."(CC, 200) T.S. Eliot’s “Christianity and Culture”
Throughout the centuries, the Christian influence has civilized the most pagan of cultures rather it be the Romans, the Vikings, the Native Americans, Europeans, etc. The Protestant missionaries, pastors, evangelists, and the Catholic saints had a large influence on pagan cultures. If you study the before and after you will see the contrast is like night vs day. Of course, throughout history, you will have leaders who tried to force Christianity by the sword or rifle but it is by majority those who went and lived among the pagans and who often gave their life as evident in Foxe's Book of Martyrs, that had the greatest influence.
https://www.christianbook.com/foxes...tian-classic/john-foxe/9781565637818/pd/35043
One example to reach the Native Americans was the Thomas Jefferson's Bible which was titled The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, Being Extracted from the Account of His Life and Doctrines Given by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; Being an Abridgement of the New Testament for the Use of the Indians, Uncomplicated with Matters of Fact or Faith Beyond the Level of Their Comprehensions.
Despite the modern critics who leave out that Jefferson simply thought the Gospels would be too complicated for the Indians. It was originally meant to be sent with Christian missionaries, to abridge the Indians from pagan thinking.
Why is it in every country around the world that has not had centuries of Christian influence still centuries behind in civil rights, social justice, liberty, and value of life?
Notice today as each Christian rooted civilization is returning to barbarism. Why? For the obvious reason as each culture feels they must be liberalized from the traditional way with the hope, they can bring in their mind a perfect world brought on by man without God and can be sustained without God.
You will not gain any human rights if you reject Christianity. You will only further collapse into the chaos and out of chaos, a ruler will come. It happened in Germany, Russia, France, and Cuba. Either the people are worn out from the bloodshed, starvation, and a broken economy will flock to the empty promises like that of Hitler or they will be crushed as someone like Stalin or Napoleon who is waiting like a lion to pounce at the right time to seize their prey. And by either deception or force, the people move from Anarchy to a dictator.
The barbarism continues as they struggle to hold power, the people constantly rebolt, flee, or become a shell of a human as they robotically do the whims of government. Millions die. One coup after another, one Constitution after another.
Nothing is new under the sun. The human condition of the heart naturally leans towards wickedness. Without God, that wickedness will only grow into depravity so far gone that evil will become normal.
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. John Adams
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
In Christ was this American dream built. Where liberty was gained for all. The words we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This set an unprecedented and counter movement from dictators, kings, tyrants, and proclaimed that certain unalienable rights are God-given and that no man or government has the right to give or take away. This set in motion a dream and a promise that millions around the world fled to.
The Founding Fathers built a governing system on the Judeo-Christian foundation. They built it on a solid foundation and gave the power to the people through a constitutional republic. Where the people had the foundation and freedom to secure the rights of life, liberty, and prosperity for all.
Fredrick Douglas who was a freed slave became an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He proclaimed how the foundation was good but certain men kept the nation from moving forward.
"In that instrument I hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but, interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither. While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it.
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.
Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country. There are forces in operation, which must inevitably work the downfall of slavery. “The arm of the Lord is not shortened,” and the doom of slavery is certain. I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence, the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age. -“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass | July 5, 1852
If we destroy the foundation and promote the secular ideologies of the pagans then the only direction is to revert back to the way of the pagan.
The relationship between sociology and Christianity is a happy and prosperous relationship. Of course, those who are evil and follow the course of evil want to see that relationship to fail. We must never let that happen. To conclude and repeat the words of Eliot, "You must pass through many centuries of barbarism. We should not live to see the new culture, nor would our great-great-great-grandchildren.
Life would be short and filled with heartache. Our children and grandchildren will suffer. What we do today and the years to comes will decide their fate.
Silence is not the answer. Compliance with pagan tyrants is not the answer. God is the answer. There is always a line between God and man. Some lines should never be crossed.
Throughout the centuries, the Christian influence has civilized the most pagan of cultures rather it be the Romans, the Vikings, the Native Americans, Europeans, etc. The Protestant missionaries, pastors, evangelists, and the Catholic saints had a large influence on pagan cultures. If you study the before and after you will see the contrast is like night vs day. Of course, throughout history, you will have leaders who tried to force Christianity by the sword or rifle but it is by majority those who went and lived among the pagans and who often gave their life as evident in Foxe's Book of Martyrs, that had the greatest influence.
https://www.christianbook.com/foxes...tian-classic/john-foxe/9781565637818/pd/35043
One example to reach the Native Americans was the Thomas Jefferson's Bible which was titled The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, Being Extracted from the Account of His Life and Doctrines Given by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; Being an Abridgement of the New Testament for the Use of the Indians, Uncomplicated with Matters of Fact or Faith Beyond the Level of Their Comprehensions.
Despite the modern critics who leave out that Jefferson simply thought the Gospels would be too complicated for the Indians. It was originally meant to be sent with Christian missionaries, to abridge the Indians from pagan thinking.
Why is it in every country around the world that has not had centuries of Christian influence still centuries behind in civil rights, social justice, liberty, and value of life?
Notice today as each Christian rooted civilization is returning to barbarism. Why? For the obvious reason as each culture feels they must be liberalized from the traditional way with the hope, they can bring in their mind a perfect world brought on by man without God and can be sustained without God.
You will not gain any human rights if you reject Christianity. You will only further collapse into the chaos and out of chaos, a ruler will come. It happened in Germany, Russia, France, and Cuba. Either the people are worn out from the bloodshed, starvation, and a broken economy will flock to the empty promises like that of Hitler or they will be crushed as someone like Stalin or Napoleon who is waiting like a lion to pounce at the right time to seize their prey. And by either deception or force, the people move from Anarchy to a dictator.
The barbarism continues as they struggle to hold power, the people constantly rebolt, flee, or become a shell of a human as they robotically do the whims of government. Millions die. One coup after another, one Constitution after another.
Nothing is new under the sun. The human condition of the heart naturally leans towards wickedness. Without God, that wickedness will only grow into depravity so far gone that evil will become normal.
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. John Adams
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
In Christ was this American dream built. Where liberty was gained for all. The words we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This set an unprecedented and counter movement from dictators, kings, tyrants, and proclaimed that certain unalienable rights are God-given and that no man or government has the right to give or take away. This set in motion a dream and a promise that millions around the world fled to.
The Founding Fathers built a governing system on the Judeo-Christian foundation. They built it on a solid foundation and gave the power to the people through a constitutional republic. Where the people had the foundation and freedom to secure the rights of life, liberty, and prosperity for all.
Fredrick Douglas who was a freed slave became an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He proclaimed how the foundation was good but certain men kept the nation from moving forward.
"In that instrument I hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but, interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither. While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it.
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.
Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country. There are forces in operation, which must inevitably work the downfall of slavery. “The arm of the Lord is not shortened,” and the doom of slavery is certain. I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence, the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age. -“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass | July 5, 1852
If we destroy the foundation and promote the secular ideologies of the pagans then the only direction is to revert back to the way of the pagan.
The relationship between sociology and Christianity is a happy and prosperous relationship. Of course, those who are evil and follow the course of evil want to see that relationship to fail. We must never let that happen. To conclude and repeat the words of Eliot, "You must pass through many centuries of barbarism. We should not live to see the new culture, nor would our great-great-great-grandchildren.
Life would be short and filled with heartache. Our children and grandchildren will suffer. What we do today and the years to comes will decide their fate.
Silence is not the answer. Compliance with pagan tyrants is not the answer. God is the answer. There is always a line between God and man. Some lines should never be crossed.
