No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
I am utterly struck how 300 years after his execution Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing perhaps around an altar.
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me and attracted me.
For us to think we can enjoy understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.
Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.