| Scisca said: I'm terrified of a world without God. Whenever we reject God as the source of unquestionable and unnegiotable rules and values, terrible things happen. If you look at the most violent regimes ever - Mao's China, USSR, 3rd Reich - rejection of God was the foundation of their ideologies. Think of the French revolution - "enlightment emphasized the importance of rational thinking and began challenging legal and moral foundations of society" (from Wikipedia). Sounds familiar? All it led to was the "Reign of Terror" and massive manslaughter. We're going down the same path in the West now. The more we reject God, the fewer values we have and the murkier everything becomes. What's our highest value at this point? Cause it's not even life with abortion and eutanasia being commonplace. It's so good to be Catholic and live in a Catholic country. |
Filix already responded pretty well to the "authoritarian regimes were atheist" argument, but I want to point two things:
1. Most revolutions lead to a lot of deaths, it's not exclusive to the French Revolution. And the French Revolution also led to a huge wave of scientific advances, that sped up technological and medical research. Let me cite some other events that killed a huge number of people (I'm using the geometric mean estimate) (for reference, the Reign of Terror killed ~26k people):
- The European colonization of the Americas: 34 million killed. All of the countries that colonized America were strongly Christian.
- The Hundred Years' War: 2.8 million killed. Both England and France were strongly Christian.
- The Crusades: 1.7 million killed. Happened because of Christianity.
And those are just the most famous examples.
2. God, according to the Bible, killed every single human but 8. That'd have been the largest manslaughter ever. And he also created abortion, natural abortion is a thing.
