1:38:00 "Friendship means more to me than propositions." If by propositions you mean principles, are you basically saying you are unprincipled?
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That's because most Westerners are not Christian. This means Christianity has failed if most Westerners do not consider themselves Christian. Britain is only nominally Christian because it is a monarchy supported by the Church of England. If you count the actual number who believe in God and the people who worship the Trinity, it is probably already the case that the people who really believe in God are in fact Muslim and their numbers already exceed the number of people who are confirmed Christians.
What does it mean to be Christian? In my view, only people who are confirmed Christians have the right to claim Christian identity. The rest wishing to identify as Christian would just be Cultural Christians. To call yourself a Cultural Christian is to advertise your non-worship of the Trinity or even the denial of the existence of the Abrahamic God.
Both the Catholic and Anglican Church are shy of publishing the actual numbers of confirmed Catholics and Anglicans because they are abysmally low.
Christianity is not even the official religion of European kingdoms with Christian monarchs eg Spain, Belgium and America is not officially a Christian nation.
In fact, the Founding Fathers were heretical Christians who separated the Church from their State to quarantine the religion that supported the divine right of kings.
Once Europeans kingdoms ceased the Christian practice of heretic burning, belief in Christianity began to decline. Before 80 years had elapsed since the last Briton was executed for blasphemy in 1697, the American Revolution broke out initiating a series of republican revolutions that ended Christendom in 1918. If you want to blame the end of Christendom on anything or anyone, blame the Americans. If you want to go back further, blame the English for killing their king exposing the inability of the Anglican Church to defend the divine right of Charles I to rule. If you want to go back even further, blame the decline and fall of the Roman Empire on Christianity as Edward Gibbon did in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which the Founding Fathers read.
Here's a thought experiment: imagine you are all descendants of Charles I, Louis XVI and Nicholas II and they could be resurrected to answer a few questions on Christianity. If you asked them "To what extent was Christianity successful in defending your divine right to rule?" what do you think their answer would be?
Here's another thought experiment: imagine Constantine the Great being resurrected and being prepared to answer a few questions on Christianity.
1. Did you establish the Roman Catholic Church because the old imperial cult was failing?
2. To what extent did Christianity prevent the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in 476?
Yet another thought experiment: imagine the Founding Fathers being resurrected and being prepared to answer a few questions on their motivations in separating the church from their state.
1. Did you agree with Edward Gibbon's thesis that Christianity caused the decline and fall of the Roman Empire?
2. Did you separate the church from your state after accepting Gibbon's thesis?
3. Did you know that the only holy book that supports the First Amendment is 2:256 of the Koran?
Is this what you want, Americans, on 250th anniversary of the American Republic?
If so, by all means pass a Christian Amendment to make America officially a Christian Republic. This has already been done in Samoa, with predictable consequences.
Feel free to turn back time, all the way back to the 4th century when the subjects of Christian absolute monarchs began to be force-fed the idolatry and blasphemy of the Trinity breaking the first and second commandments which presumably leads to damnation if God exists to punish anyone for anything since they are mortal sins.
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