You know G. Alston it would help if you weren’t quite so clueless. You mock Christians as follows:
“Meanwhile, claiming that islamic belief is 1000 years behind the west conveniently ignores the fact that to be a real christian you have to deny the reality of evolution. They’re not 1000 years behind the west. They’re on your page. Christian belief that god is the source of morals is utterly at odds with science, yet western civilisation hasn’t imploded.”
However:
1 – Christian doctrine does not require that one deny the “reality” of evolution. See the Catholic Magisterium.
2 – There would be no modern science, no modern technological society, no modern medicine if it were not for Western Christianity. You G. Alston would most likely be deprived of modern human, civil and democratic rights without Christianity for that matter either. Try figuring our just what scientific advances were given to the modern world by scientist and Roman Catholic priest Father Georges Lemaître or scientist and Augustinian Roman Catholic priest Gregor Johann Mendel for that matter.
3 – Christian doctrine does not conflict with science. Neither is the Christian belief in G-d as a source of morals at odds with science. In fact modern science has been built upon basic Christian doctrines such as the Universe in knowable and the Universe obeys rational laws. Christian doctrine and belief are however in conflict with Philosophical Materialistic Determinism, Nihilism and barbaric Social Darwinism masquerading as “science”.
4 – And perhaps not surprisingly you conveniently ignore the obvious. Craven and weak, secularized Western Europe, hostile to its Christian heritage, is undergoing demographic, cultural and institutional collapse … a civilizational implosion!
