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All Great Nations of the World are Christian Nations
Originally posted by GreatTech
All Great Nations of the World are Christian Nations
Originally posted by GreatTech
I love you, too, queenannie38. You are brilliant, and I believe you are one of the smartest people on ATS (I am always amazed at your thoroughness in quotations). I pray for you with love as I pray for all people.
What is a great nation? One that lives the longest.
As strange as that may sound at first, its probably right. The US is older than most governments on the planet right now, for example. Short-lived nations tend to not stack up on any lists as 'great'.
There is an extremely high correlation between nations that profess Christianity and Life Expectancy on Earth.
I think that the correlation is stronger between life expectancy and medical access, that that of the majority religion.
that there is a significant correlation between Life Expectancy and Christianity.
Just because the long livers, lets call them, are christians, doesn't mean christianity correlates to longevity, and certainly doesn't mean it causes it. Do christians in the iran, for example, live longer than the average muslim or zoroasterian? Lebanon has a very large christian component, why does it not reap the benefit?
Tsarist russia wasn't the best place to live, and it was overthrown and replaced by an atheist government. Where was the christian protection then?
Armenia was the first country in the world to have christianity as the state religion, why isn't armenia better off than its neighbhors?
I believe our belief system (thought system) creates the foundation for any form of government, or anything that has been created.
And if it did, what does the fact that the founders were liberal deists tell us? Jefferson famously tore out the pages from his bible that talked about miracles. For their time, the founders were secularists, near atheists, so how is the US a christian nation? I agree, the majority religion is self professing christians, but that doesn't mean the US is a christian nation. Other nations without majority christians, that follow the western pattern of private property, open markets, equality before the law, protection of individual rights and liberty, they are succesful too. And majority christian countries that don't follow those ideals, they are not succesful. Seems christianity has nothing to do with it.
Originally posted by queenannie38
As far as longevity of a nation (not its citizens)....
wouldn't China be the oldest of all?
Originally posted by GreatTech
America is a Christian Nation. We suffer on the Cross each day, and are Resurrected each day.
Originally posted by junglejake
They're only about 57 years old. The US's form of government has been around a lot longer than that.