I went into discussion with some dude unde Matt’s Video. I guess its one of the callers to AxP…
He aparrently didnt liked my statment that I havent been brought up in judeo-christian tradition. He made quite a funny statement that “Czechoslovakia was a christian country before communists ravaged it after 1910”…
- Czechoslovakia existed between 1918-1938 and then 1945-1993
- Communists got to power in 1948 and were forced to leave in 1989.
- Its true that during Habsburg monarchy the country was religious. It was because Habsburg family was, and still is strongly roman-catholic.
Also because the country was ravaged by conflicts between protestants and catholics, there was agreed on a peace that if local lord was protestant, all his subjects were considered protestant, and if he was a catholic his subjects were catholics. It wasnt regime of religious oppresion per-se, but there was no religious freedom at all. Monarchy went throught many changes in its shape and slowly were people more and more educated and given more and more rights. It wasnt completely a totalitarian state at the end of First World War.
He attempted to claim that there is 40% of christians in Czechoslovakia (which by the way no longer exists). Um actually, there is 34,5% of “No relgion” and 44,5% Undeclared people in last census in 2011 when speaking on current Czech republic, and 25% undeclared in current Slovakia (vs 75% various christians).
He had no problem to argue with monarchy ruled by a well known catholic aristocratic family and claim there was 95% of christian there, and made up % about current amount of christian in now non-existing country, yet he completely overlooked that for 41 years there has to be 0% of religious people. Also I know that my family conformed to this, as they wanted good future for me and my brothers. (if you was a believer, you was not allowed to study at university).
Living in Czechoslovakian version of communism was not so appalling as its now in North Korea, even China has more strict social regime. But i usually hear a lot of christians to say how commuists, atheists and humanista are trying to undermine christian morale. So… When i was born in a country which had communist regime for 35 years at that time, he still claimed i was brought up in christian values? That contradicted his own statements.
Then he made statement that “christian values were all around me” and my morale was based on them. So why making the statement about humanist marxism and how it wants to destroy all the social values?