Can a non-Christian live in a Christianized society?
If you listen to the constant harping of the leftists, the answer is “no.” But is that true? Do we have historical examples of a Christianized society with non-believers? Indeed, we do.
The early United States was a Christianized society, as were many European nations. While denied by many secular historians for years, often misusing Thomas Jefferson’s famous “separation of church and state” dictum, the reality is that this country early on was essentially Christian.[1] Did that mean everyone in the nation was personally a Christian? Of course not.
So, what did it mean? Simple: the basic standards of law were focused on the moral law of God as found in the Bible, and those laws focused on the prohibition against various forms of theft.[2]
This does not mean that early America was a perfect society. Indeed, there were those who made an early assault against the nation’s foundation, particularly with efforts to engage in theft by proxy by trying to appropriate public monies for a select few. But many people who were not personally Christians lived in early America and thrived, because the law protected them from theft by powerful people.
Living in a Christianized nation is not about forcing people to convert or requiring them to go to church, though some have attempted to do these things. This was, in part, a failing of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s. Rather, it is about determining who will be outlaws.
It is about determining who will be under the ban.
Despite the screeching from the deranged left, they themselves demand and do the same thing, being as religious as the most ardent fundamentalist preacher. They wish to place their opponents under the ban, especially when their opponents refuse to support their stealing or reject their sacraments of worship and fealty. Many today have forgotten that early Christians were not persecuted by Rome because they were Christians, but rather because they refused to worship the genius of the emperor as the highest authority on earth. They were treated as traitors to Rome.
Those who desire loot find cause with powerful men (and women… I must be an equal opportunity offender) who wish to loot the productive. They turn to the power of the state to steal public monies and create exclusive monopolies for the purpose of gaining easy wealth without risk.
But in a Christianized society, any who are willing to live without stealing can thrive. And those who steal in its various forms are under the ban.
So, the question to my non-Christian friends is: who do you want under the ban?
[1] For an overview of the First Amendment and its intended meaning, see Freedom From Federal Establishment: Formation and Early History of the First Amendment Religion Clauses. Chester James Antieau, et al. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co., 1964.
[2] For an overview of laws patterned on Biblical Christian principles, see Foundations of Colonial America: a Documentary History, Vols I-III. W. Keith Kavenagh, ed. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1973.
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