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Your really ought to read a few historys of the early Catholic church, say up to the 1800’s. Admiration? Give me a break.

I guess they did get rid of most of the witches though.

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I’d bet there were those who either failed to read the verses, or having done so, willfully turned their back on them.

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Nor does it encourage human development i.e creating an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accord with their needs and interests.

http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

nor does it create the best quality of life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-life_index

Consistently in the top 10 of each survey is the Scandinavian countries whereas in the heritage rankings they are in the mid teens to mid twenties. The fact that both laissez faire and social democratic states can be found in similar ranking position indicates there is not one correct ideology. I would suggest good management and natural resources are more important. Since I value equality of opportunity and quality of life more I prefer the social democratic ideology but perhaps you have different values.

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I always find these kinds of posts easier to interpret if they are preceded by:

I believe that …

Any time someone tries to “prove” something with Biblical quotes, they have a tendency to founder on the question of how reliable we should consider that portion of the Bible.

When you say you believe this because of these Bible verses, as stated, unless you lied, this in unquestionably true.

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Rom 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,

Rom 1:19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

Rom 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

Rom 1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Rom 1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

Rom 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

Rom 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator–who is forever praised. Amen.

Rom 1:26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Rom 1:27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Rom 1:28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Rom 1:29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,

Rom 1:30 slanderers, God‑haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

Rom 1:31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Rom 1:32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

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I suggest your comment about Europe being Islamic is a bit of hyperbole.

It is interesting, hwever, that what you appear to consider to be churches that keep the faith with the past appear to be typically 15th century or latter in origin, arguably most are post 18th century.

If one insists on keeping faith with the past then I suggest that Roman Catholicism, Eastern Rite Churches, or perhaps the ethiopean Church are appropriate denominations.

It is interesting that many of those who appear to argue for “the original faith” in fact are followers of what may be argued are relatively modern “heresies”.

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For this, good Christians in more conservative congregations — those who DO think they’re entitled to have the government impose their beliefs on the rest of the country — demonize him.

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