day no. 17,469: religious liberty does not grow on secular trees

"Let us say that we have a country—America, say—that has a long tradition of respecting religious liberty. We will not inquire (at this time) into the factors that created this tradition . . . because we are going to get there in a minute. All we need to know now is the fact that they have it. Now suppose in the name of that religious liberty, that country opens its borders to millions of people who represent a tradition that does not respect religious liberty at all. Not a bit." — Douglas Wilson, Religious Liberty Is a Religious Value

Religious liberty is a Christian value. Christianity is the salt of the earth. But what good is salt that has lost its saltiness? How much sugar can you add to the salt cellar before it is no longer a salt cellar? A little bit of sugar can assimilate unnoticed, but at a certain saturation, it is all you notice.

"So if you want ordered liberty under law, with the maximum amount of liberty for dissenters, the best place to get it from would be the Christians. Simply compare the liberties of a Christian in a Muslim state and those of a Muslim in a Christian state. I trust Christians to respect the rights of secularists far more than I trust the secularist to respect the rights of Christians." — Douglas Wilson, Religious Liberty Is a Religious Value

Christianity is accused of being totalitarian, but Christendom has made room for those who accuse it of that. On the other hand, the cancel culture of the dissenters would eliminate Christianity altogether if it could and is not ashamed to say so. Unbelievers and their unbelief is safer in a Christian society than Christendom and faith are in an unbelieving society. Tolerance is a Christian virtue. It can spring from cowardice and it can tolerate too much for too long, but the fact of it is only possible in a society that honors Christ. Unbelief has about as much tolerance for Christ as feminists do for the patriarchy.

"If there is no such thing as neutrality—and there isn’t—then there can be no moral or ethical system that springs up out of that neutrality. Soil that isn’t there cannot be used to grow anything. The secularists take credit for religious liberty the same way squatters take credit for the house that they just seized." — Douglas Wilson, Religious Liberty Is a Religious Value

Secular humanism and the coexist cult have not produced peace. Christendom made a way for atheists to live among Christians, but Atheism has not room for Christians. Atheism converts by the tip of the sword, usually borrow from the State since they weren't using it on murders, rapists, kidnappers, or pedos. Whatever coexistence every existed, it was there because of the Christian faith. As we have increasingly abandoned the law of God, we have become increasingly less tolerant of differences. In some regards, this is honest inasmuch as it formally recognizes the enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman, but it does not end with the sons of snakes trying to convert the Christians through arguments, it ends with them attempting to exterminate believers (and their beliefs) by force.