Christian culture is possible, and Christianity does have a social purpose (see the second half of the Greatest Commandment, and everything else recorded in the Gospels about how to relate to other people). Is that "civilization"?
What's impossible is a genuinely Christian government. Government is a coercive civil authority, a monopoly-violence institution, an imposed hierarchical social order.
You can do culture and social purpose and maybe even "civilization" without the anti-Christ aspects that government brings.
So good, helpful, needed, challenging. Thank you!
Christian culture is possible, and Christianity does have a social purpose (see the second half of the Greatest Commandment, and everything else recorded in the Gospels about how to relate to other people). Is that "civilization"?
What's impossible is a genuinely Christian government. Government is a coercive civil authority, a monopoly-violence institution, an imposed hierarchical social order.
You can do culture and social purpose and maybe even "civilization" without the anti-Christ aspects that government brings.