христианство и запад
Просто небольшая подборка цитат выдающихся людей . В свете сегодняшней дехристианизации , особенно интересно вспомнить, что думали те люди, которые символизируют Западную цивилизацию.
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Т.С. Элиот (знаменитый американо-английский поэт, драматург , нобелевский лауреат )
"Если христианство погибнет, вместе с ним погибнет вся наша культура. И придется начинать все сначала, медленно и болезненно, и новая культура из ниоткуда не появится. Нужно подождать, пока прорастет трава, потом скормить ее овцам, потом состричь шерсть, а уж затем вязать себе кофту. Нас ждут долгие века варварства. Скорее всего, мы не доживем до расцвета новой культуры, как и наши прапрапраправнуки - а если и доживем, вряд ли кому-либо из нас это принесет счастье"
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Джордж Вашингтон
("прощальное послание")
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
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Джон Адамс (второй президент США)
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
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Woodrow Wilson, in his election campaign for President:
- "A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.... America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the tenets of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture."