Golden Age of biblical principles?

Me thinks you are stallinghop to itDawn Bertot

I have no idea what your reply has to do with the question I asked so I will try again.So let me get this straight.Are you saying that "Love your neighbor as yourself" is the biblical principle and that the 1800s, 1940s and 1950s are the period when that principle was held up as a rule of moral principles by the vast majority of Americans?

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

Buz claims there was some sort of golden age. All I am asking is when was it and do people think there was one. There is no implication.Do you want to contribute constructively or not? I am asking more forcefully this time. Do not sidetrack my thread making baseless assertions. Either stay on topic or leave.

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Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

Will you please stay on topic.

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Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

This is my final request. If you continue trying to move this from the topic in the OP, I will request active admin moderation

Yeeeees. Could you demonstrate why this was not a golden age of the Bible when the majority of the people held it to the highest standard and used it as the sole guide in moralsDawn Bertot

Ok, I claim that time was the 1800s in this country and the forties and fifties in this country. Now what?Dawn BertotEdited by Dawn Bertot, : No reason given.

Well the in the 1940 the Germans used the bible to condemm Jews. And used it to support their claim that they are the chosen race.1800 to 1900 Was a golden age of science not the bible it was the age of inventions.1950 the bible lost most of its power over the masses and rock and role was borne

I think he has told us when it started to decline: So, things were peachy before the end of WWII.

Well we can look and see if the people of the United States did actually use the principle "Love your neighbor as yourself" as their sole guide in morals.The 1800 would be the period when the US, after signing a Treaty with the Kingdom of Hawaii invaded it and over threw the monarch. It would be the period of the Spanish American War when we invaded and took Puerto Rico. It would be when the US invaded Mexico and forced them to accept a treaty that gave the US what is now Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, California, Utah and parts of Colorado. It would be the period of the Indian Wars where the US not only took land from the Native Americans by force but also desecrated their Holy Places (which we continue to do today) but also outlawed and suppressed their religions and cultural practices.Do those sound like the acts of a people driven by the biblical principle "Love thy neighbor as they self?"Remember "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." ?

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

The communication problem seems to be because what you call a "decline", a lot of other people call an improvement. The Civil Rights movement, for example, was a big part of that era and many of us wouldn't consider segregation to be a Biblical principle (at least, not one worth following).The Bible itself suggests that history will be a series of ups and downs, not a trend in one direction or the other:

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Ecc 1:9-10 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

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(It's also interesting that you mention "real value money" as if it was a Biblical principle.)

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"It appears that many of you turn to Hebrew to escape the English...." -- Joseppi

1800's is an interesting choice. But ti shows a complete lack of historical context and a failure to be able to separate myths from reality.Did the genocide of native americans have a biblical impetus? Do you think religion and biblical principles were a driving force on the frontier? Did you know that it was legal to transport women for the purpose of prostitution? In 1858 prostitution was a bigger business than shipping and brewing combined.Source
Women couldn't vote in the 1800's. Slavery was a normal part of life for most of the 19th century.Then again in some people eyes these are biblical principles.The 1800's you say. Really?So any evidence that people followed biblical principles more at that time?Edited by Theodoric, : No reason given.

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Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

By "this country", you mean the United States of America? If you do, surely you must be an upper-class white male, as being anything different would mean the times you stated would have been abysmal for you. So I guess a good time for biblical principles is when Caucasian males reign supreme, right? Christianity is all about Caucasian males? I bet you think jeebus is a white dude, huh?

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"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.

Sure he is a blond blue eyed white dude that was borne the middle east, what makes you think he was not? Back on topic there is no age that could be considered a golden age of biblical principles by todays standards. If you bring any bible stomper from any age especialy from the dark ages to this age they would say that the we are all satan worshipers. And if you read any history books the bible did not do anything good for the people ever it was always used as a tool to keep the poor in chek, to rally them to ware, for political gain, personal gain ........

As usual you and others fail to distinquish between the leadership and the average person in the area at that time. The bible was respected, worship and churches were prevelentthere was then as there is now prejudices that existed, but for the greater part God and his word were respected as the sole rulejars yours an others examples do not address the average person that made up the massesShould we judge all Catholics by a fews perversion in the leadership. Do the vast majority of Catholics honor catholic doctrine? Im going to bet they doThe 1800s were most certainly a golden age of the Bible and its principlesIts only when the simple are influenced by yours and others sloppy logic that a decline startsDawn Bertot