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A step back: the onward march of barbarity

That is a step backward? If the traditionalists who aspire to the 1950 or is that progressive want to return all the way into the pagan societies of ancient Greece and Rome?

America has always been a progressive liberal society. (I use the word "liberal" classic in the American consciousness of its meaning.) Have a moral impulse to improve society and the shining city on a hill.

Since its debut in America has hosted a variety of social movements. people of the early church led campaign to abolish the duel and prison reform.

He also worked in the late lottery (many states have raised funds through lotteries) and prohibit abortion. Abortion is a problem of America's youth.

Abortion is permitted only because medical technology had not advanced enough to discern that the fetus was a human being genetically distinct. Abortion is illegal in all states by mid-1800.

Early American Christians have pushed the most famous of the abolition of slavery. All reform movements social have been expelled by the Christians believe in the Bible. The Christians were the political liberals of the time.

Over England the evangelical Christian Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809 – 1898) was the Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister worked to free Ireland and other countries from the clutches of colonialism.

All these progressive social movements have been led by Christians. Few lay people participated. These days secular, faith is professed by a few people. Christianity pervaded the hearts and minds of social reformers.

The early church was also involved in social reform. In ancient Rome after the conversion Constantine, Christians have pushed for prison reform, abolition of the gladiatorial battles and adopted babies who were likely to die.

In the Middle Ages, Christians formed the first universities in the modern sense and Christian Europe was the first continent to abolish slavery.

Scholars tend to adopt modern moral reforms of the past 2,000 years to assume that if such a radical change happened by chance. People alive today have little idea what was living in ancient pagan Rome and Greece.

The unbridled brutality of pagan life was recorded by ancient historians like Tacitus and Herodotus. Even the writings of Plato and Aristotle represent the ancient Greeks leaving babies exposed to die, and many other such atrocities.

Ancient Greece and Rome were more half slave. Obtained slaves by conquest of neighboring nations and make the people in captivity. Wars of aggression have been the order of the day.

The Romans forced the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe to slavery to the point that even his name "Slav" became the word slave.

The pagan tribes of Europe were not practice as barbaric and slavery, but also human sacrifices.

A chapter in the book by Arthur Koestler The Thirteenth describes tribal life among the pagan tribes of the north-east of Europe. The brutality was amazing.

Things began to change for the better when people north-east of Europe became Christianity in the tenth century.

This brings us to the social progressives of our own 21 st century. Lay people working for social change appeal to the correction vague policy as a moral guide.

Secular work for "progress" that takes place in large part against the Bible-based morality.

For example, believe that "progress" to allow a woman to the ninth month of pregnancy to have her baby partially delivered and killed by a physician with a tool keen to penetrate the infant skull.

This type of brutality is similar to the ancient pagan Roman practice of infanticide. This is not social progress but socially regressive. This is a throwback to the social conditions of ancient pagan civilizations.

The acceptance of homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle is another turn practices of ancient paganism.

At present there are over a million abortions a year in the United States. The culture of death spread of suicide abortion to medically assisted euthanasia.

The social acceptance of fornication and adultery has led to the disintegration of families without fathers and widespread. family disintegration and abandonment by parents was also a feature of the former "great" civilizations.

"Greatness" measured the ability of civilization to conquer surrounding peoples and take their land.

Communism may be considered as a form of secular fundamentalism. Communists took power in Russia in 1917 and China in 1949.

Together, these states not only suppress communist secular Christianity and other religions, but also killed more than 70 million people in their quest to build a secular utopia. Their brutality is worse than pagan societies!

Lay people often laughs at the social agenda of Christians and say, "Try to bring back the 1950!"

In contrast to secularism, but who knowingly, or try to return all the way to the brutality of ancient pagan civilizations.

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