ClaytonB
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The evidence for the life, death and resurrection of Jesus is much weightier than most unbelievers realize. And his prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans is one of the most detailed, exact and long-range prophecies in all of Scripture. Think twice before dismissing the Gospel out-of-hand!

There is no such thing as an "absence of religion" in society. "Secularism" is just a synonym for pagan polytheism. The story of the Old Testament, and its culmination in the gospels and the rest of the New Testament, follows a crystal-clear story-arc. There is no mystery, here. The central theme of the entire Bible is that God is the one-and-only Creator and, when we fell from grace through disobedience, we became inundated with a host of so-called "gods", all clamoring for our attention and pretending to be something that they aren't. That is, they are corrupt creatures claiming to be the Creator. In a word, they are impostors. I realize that a lot of people in the liberty movement are not explicitly Christian. Some belong to some other religion, and a significant number are either agnostic, atheist or just have no definite stance on religious questions. For those liberty-lovers who are not Christian, this is the thought-experiment that I would propose: suppose for a moment that a being appeared to you in a manner that made it unquestionable that this being is divine, and he explained to you that you are not compelled to believe in Christianity, but Christianity is the only true defense of civil freedoms, such as the freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, the right to effective self-defense, and so on. Now, given this information, would you be willing to pragmatically support Christianity as a force for civil good and order, even while you do not personally subscribe to it? I hope that the answer to that is yes. And the point of that thought-experiment, is that "Christian Nationalism" isn't about "imposing" anything on anyone, in fact, it's the only religious alternative that preserves the right of people to seek God according to their own conscience. The reason for raising this discussion in 2023, is that the doomsday virus has amply demonstrated that (a) we already have an established state-religion (secularism/polytheism), and (b) this established religion is tyrannical and oppressive in the extreme, in most cases amounting to little more than mob justice and Twitter-fueled reputational-lynching ("cancel"ing). Note that this is exactly how justice worked in pagan cultures like ancient Greece and Rome. Sure, they "tolerated" many gods in the temples, but the individual's conscience was always a mere slave to the mob. And the proof of this is in how much persecution and martyrdom the early church underwent for the simple act of daring to publicly teach that there is only one God, who is good and loving and who wants to save mankind from death and hell. As the historians constantly remind us: if you want to know the future, study the past. Nature abhors a vacuum. You cannot throw God out of your culture and expect that nothing is going to fill that void. In fact, everything is going to fill that void, and almost all of that "everything" is really evil stuff. We have simply forgotten how many shoulders of giants we are standing upon. We have become thankless and narcissistic, and so we imagine that we can just rewrite society according to our whims. How well have the marxists done in their two-century-long attempt to rewrite reality according to their whims? How has that actually worked out? More in-depth:

Prediction: You're going to be hearing a lot more about ChatGPT in 2023...