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**ImmimiFruff** · 04-21-2010, 08:45 AM

As many posters stated God allows heresies to thrive because he allows free will. Having said that, it is unusual that for the last 1000 years God has not intervened, as He did for example with Arianism, to ensure the continued dominance of Orthodoxy. My conclusion is that God in the end willed today’s minor heresies to thrive because given the sinful human nature that was the in the best, though imperfect, interest of Christianity. Let us ask ourselves which is the only developed country in the world where Christianity is still vibrant, secularism is not dominating, and the average person goes to Church every Sunday? It’s the US. A country where no dominant State-sponsored Church exists and where different denominations compete for the hearts and minds of the average person.

Gallup poll created a “religiosity index based how often people go to Church and how important they view religion in their life. The US had an index of 61, Portugal 57, Italy 56, Greece 52, Armenia 50, Israel 44, Germany 37, Ukraine 37, Spain 32, France 30, Russia 28, Sweden 23. Latin Americans countries, where Protestants and Catholics are doing aggressive missionary work were higher than the US (e.g, Brazil 69, Colombia 69)

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ImmimiFruff Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 538 Senior Member	As many posters stated God allows heresies to thrive because he allows free will. Having said that, it is unusual that for the last 1000 years God has not intervened, as He did for example with Arianism, to ensure the continued dominance of Orthodoxy. My conclusion is that God in the end willed today’s minor heresies to thrive because given the sinful human nature that was the in the best, though imperfect, interest of Christianity. Let us ask ourselves which is the only developed country in the world where Christianity is still vibrant, secularism is not dominating, and the average person goes to Church every Sunday? It’s the US. A country where no dominant State-sponsored Church exists and where different denominations compete for the hearts and minds of the average person. Gallup poll created a “religiosity index based how often people go to Church and how important they view religion in their life. The US had an index of 61, Portugal 57, Italy 56, Greece 52, Armenia 50, Israel 44, Germany 37, Ukraine 37, Spain 32, France 30, Russia 28, Sweden 23. Latin Americans countries, where Protestants and Catholics are doing aggressive missionary work were higher than the US (e.g, Brazil 69, Colombia 69)
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