They of course did not foresee the French Terror, Communist revolution, Pol Pot's killing fields, Mao's Great Leap Forward, and the Holocaust. But, they did re

They of course did not foresee the French Terror, Communist revolution, Pol Pot's killing fields, Mao's Great Leap Forward, and the Holocaust. But, they did realize the implications of believing man was only matter and that there was no moral order. Christianity was formed in the midst of societies that had very little regard for human life, and stood out for protesting the oppression of their day.