CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONS OF MELBOURNE'S CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS 

The Church, Religious orders and individual Christians pioneered Social welfare, education, hospitals in Melbourne and made major contributions to the founding and the culture of our city.

The unique character of our civic life and community arose out of Christian faith     “ CLICK HERE FOR FULL DOCUMENT

WHY AND HOW CHRISTIAN FAITH CHANGED HUMANITY

By Jim Rawson, Campus Crusade Australia 

Preamble

Most people have very little knowledge of the contribution Christianity has made to science, human thought and civilisation.

The growing influence of secular humanism in Australia and the rise of evangelistic atheism are enabled by widespread ignorance of this Christian contribution across our society and human history.  The aggressive promotion of atheism by Richard Dawkins and others involves the repeated claims that there is no evidence for God, and that Christianity is an irrational delusion with no value to society.

This paper summarises the historical contribution of Christianity that refutes the false claims of atheists, and strengthens the belief of Christians and those undecided. 

The paper acknowledges and discusses the “evil contributions” of Christianity that are highlighted by atheist speakers as evidence against the truth of Christian faith. These include the brutal events of history, as well as how Christians in the West often live by Western values rather than by Biblical ones. 

As well as 8 pages of Christian contributions to humanity, the paper discusses why Christianity became the dominant world religion – and why no other worldview or creed has impacted globally on humanity’s wellbeing.

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MPs, Christians and others have no idea that

OUR SOCIETY DEPENDS ON CHRISTIAN FAITH AND THE CHURCH

SUMMARY 

Christian faith is the foundation of much of every level of our society: its history, laws, institutions, culture, values, economy and community support. 

Our city depends on Christian welfare services beyond the capacity of government to provide.  The churches in Melbourne provide vital community support, compassion and generosity and are centres of relationships and caring for their local communities. Christian overseas aid is far in excess of any other movement

44% of secondary and 34% of all primary students in Victoria attend Catholic or independent schools and these percentages are rising - generally because parents see these schools give priority to Christian values or the style of education provided by them. (State schools could not take all this over).

The highly intentional atheist and secular humanist movements are seeking to influence governments to remove the freedom of the Church and Christian agencies to provide their community support, and Christian education programmes and Chaplaincy in schools which foster Christian values in society.  The result would be a major loss for society and especially the poor.

This will succeed is only if the government and society remain ignorant of the truth of vital contribution of the Christian community and the powerful faith on which it is built.

"ALL MELBOURNE MATTERS" TM Research of the whole Church in Melbourne

• A unique study of the whole Church across Greater Melbourne
• A major resource for mission planning
• Still the latest statistics (New Census and NCLS figures not available till late 2012)
• No plans for this research or report to be updated in the future