That is true of most religions but not Christianity and Christian morality. As I stated before Western Civilization was primarily founded on Christian moral principles. Principles such as those in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights of the US.
Complete and utter nonsense. Christianity has no good moral principles that are completely unique to Christianity, and couldn't be found in cultures that predated Christianity.
If the Christians came up with a set of moral ideas that they invented, you can claim it as christian morality. If they have the same basic moral principles as any other culture before or since then, then you have secular morality.
I'd argue the principles that are unique to Christianity are the ones that need to be done away with, as they are ultimately harmful.
While Europe has become more secular it still borrows from its Christian past on many of these principles, though in the areas of free speech, the right to life for humans of all ages including the extremely young, and property rights, they have weakened and started to abandon these.
There is no right to free speech in christian scriptures, and in many if not all christian theocracies free speech was never part of the law. In fact, speaking out against the church in many cases would lead to your torture or execution.
Likewise, there is no right to life spelled out in christian scripture. There is a prohibition against murder, however apart from that people are getting killed all over the place in the bible, many times on the command of god himself.
This can also be seen happening in the US especially in the more secular Democratic party. They have started to limit free speech especially on college campuses, and freedom of religion was starting to be restricted under the Obama Administration.
The democratic party has not been responsible for any limitation of speech on a college campus. Some colleges cancelled talks due to protests, however the democratic party is completely unrelated to the operation or management of those institutions.
Lastly, your claim that freedom of religion was starting to be restricted under the Obama administration is absurd. Can you provide a single example of someone not being allowed to belong to a religion of their choice or worship as they want due to one of Obama's actions?
And of course, the right of life of the unborn. Purely secular countries like the early French Republic, Nazi Germany, and all the Communist countries have much less freedoms and treat life much more cheaply than nations who were founded on Christian principles.
Nazi Germany was not a secular country. For example, one of the first things Hitler did while in office was turn over control of the schools to the Catholic Church. Likewise, Hitler was a self professed Catholic, and even if you dispute that you can't argue that well over 90% of the German population identified as Christian at the time.
I do notice however you leave out modern day secular countries... like the Scandinavian countries, Modern Germany, France, Australia, Canada and the United States itself. The fact they are secular is one reason why they have been successful. Show me one theocracy which has a good human rights record.
Well, that may not be the best analogy. A better analogy would be a case where there are two email addresses, one has 2000 emails in it, the other has only one. Which one is most likely to a real person with an email account?
There's not enough evidence either way to know based on what you gave me.
Fraid so, if you look at the passages in the original Greek and Hebrew and also with the understanding that God has revealed some of His truths in His other book, Nature, it can be shown quite easily that the Bible DOES teach these things about the universe they are plainly within the meanings of the greek and Hebrew.
Sure, if you reinterpret them to mean what you want.
Only highly speculative evidence, he did not present a single piece of empirically observed evidence of these changes or even any process that could cause these huge changes.
It's a five minute youtube clip, not a scientific paper or lecture. You asked how it happened and I showed you a clip with a brief overview. If you really think all of the evidence we have was thrown into that clip, I'm not really sure what to say to you.
How do archaeologists determine that a human made the scraper rock or an arrowhead and they are not just naturally made rocks shaped by natural processes.
Because we can identify things that we make, and we contrast them with nature.
If nature was designed, then there would be no contrast to differentiate anything. You'd have intelligently designed rocks, intelligently designed sand, trees, plants and everything else. An intelligently designed arrowhead would blend in, we couldn't tell if it was us or god that make it. As such, it would simply appear as a natural formation.
