This is the comment I posted at the Daily Mail. I encourage others here to comment as well.
“ONLY Christians have given the world liberty. Muslims are tyrants. Their religion comes with a tyrannical government called shariia law, when they have sufficient power they enforce it for all.
The free exercise of religion is a Christian value. Every free nation today exists because of Christian values, directly or indirectly. The idea that liberty is a God given right and every person has equal value is a Christian value which is the basis of the US Constitution and the Magna Carta. The US Bill of Rights exists because of the political demands of the Baptists, like preacher John Leland. Slavery was ended because of Protestants leading wars against it (one of first being the anti-slavery Baptist Revolution in Jamaica in 1832). Martin Luther King was a bible-thumping Baptist preacher. (its not just Baptists all Protestants value mankind the same way).
People aren’t taught the roots of liberty because it they are Christian roots. Christianity is taboo in schools.
Well, that was what the Pope pointed out. Christianity is a religion that does not reject reason, and believes that God is knowable to human beings through his revelation and through the law He has stamped on the universe. He created us in His Image and Likeness, so we look for reason and for the law of our being that is fundamental to virtually all religions - except Islam.
Islam is an insane death cult that rejects the reasonable nature of God and rejects natural law; Islamic law is what is called positive law, that is, created and imposed law, and it is essentially Old Testament ritual law twisted and exaggerated to the point of insanity. If you think devils live in your nose and have to be washed out before you pray, go be a Muslim.
“(its not just Baptists all Protestants value mankind the same way).”
I’m going to risk starting something and insert Catholics in there as well.
Yes, every historian will tell you that Western civilization is the result of the long and complex interaction between Judeo-Christian and Graeco-Roman religious, philosophical, and cultural values.