"Free debate" will not continue to be the American way if Christianity loses much more of its influence and moral authority in American society.
There's a movement in the U.S. to replace the traditional American way with more coercive government. Voluntary virtue and faith are widely derided today. As they lose public support, something else will have to suppress bad behavior for society's sake - and that something else will be the government.
China's government sets itself in that role of moral authority. As the enemy of religion, it destroys churches, captures believers, forcibly changes minds - until the religion submits itself to the rule of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party).
At the very beginning of America, John Adams said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people." This founding father of America knew that it would work only for a people whose Christian faith was their primary influence.
Watch a video about the historic "Old North Church" in Boston, built in 1723.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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