Dear Metaxas: It is false that Chrustianity leads to liberty;
Fact, before the Renaissance Christianity was very intolerant of liberty, religious or pilitical. The repeated persecution of Jews all over Europe for religious reasobs is proof.
The Christian lands of Europe never produced democracy, not a single European country produced democracy when while Christianity was politically dominant.
Democracy and liberty, including luberty to think, does nit come from Chrustianity it comes from Ancuent Greej thought that precedes Christ by some 500 years and Chrustian Europe by more than 800 years, yet the Greeks had liberty of thought and democracy.
The Greeks never had the irrational idea that there are absolute ethical truths or orher absolute truths handed over to humans by anybody.
This is why the Greejs belueved in religious freedom and did not impose their religious beliefs on other ancient peoples like Jews, Egyptians, Persians or Indians, even after they cobquered them, even after the Greeks had lost their denocracies.
Liberty came back to Europe not because of Christianity, which like all “absolute truth” religions, opposes and can not comprehend liberty of thought.
That is why there have been religious wars even among the Chrustians themselves.
That is why Christian Catholics and Christian Protestants often killed each other for having different beliefs, that is why the Chrjstian Inquisition killed Jewa and practically killed Galileo and others, that is why Christian Calvinists burned Servet to death for disagreeing on the Holy Trinity.
History shows that Jews and Moslens are no better when religion rules..
Liberty of thought came to Europe when the Italians rediscovered the Greeks and sparked the Renaissance that led to the Enlightenment, the return of democracy, rule of law and the liberty to use Reason and ovservation, not faith, not holy books, no god to understand ourselves, nature, the universe.
In time, all the peopkes of the peoples of the World are “converting” to Greco-European thought and keeping religion to the head of the believer.
No, liberty does not come from Christianity or any other relugion. It comes from the Ancient Greeks who never allowed their gods to tell Greeks what to believe or how to live, or send hunans any revealed or prophets.
By the way, Marxism, Communism, Socialism are exactly like Chistianity, Judaism and Islam, Marxism and the rest are ‘ absolute truths but without god, no wonder they conmit far worse crimes.
Metaxas is a Greek name, if you go back to Protagoras and Democritus you will be far ahead of Chrustianity in liberty ans a lot more.
