Yes, that is true brother psalms 91, but the reason I wrote the original post in this thread is that I saw a speech by former President of the USA Barack Obama in South Africa in which he discussed the formative documents of human culture. He pointed out that while many documents came from European people many also came from non-Europeans. His point is that referring to Christians values as "western values", meaning European and English speaking North American values, short changes human culture. The bible is not a product of European culture even though it played a major role in shaping European institutions. I wrote this in post #8:
I heard former USA president Obama addressing people in South Africa on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Nelson Mandela. In his lecture he mentioned the many excellent documents written by people of "western" culture that are best regarded as the common heritage of humanity rather than something exclusive to the West - he was heading off the argument that some in Africa and some in Asia make against those values arguing that Western culture and Western values are eroding traditional liberties and values of the free people of Asia and Africa; that argument is, obviously, not true. Freedom, goodness, truth, the existence of facts and the existence of moral values is not a western invention it is an objective reality. So let no one argue that what lies at the heart of Christian moral values is a western invention or a heritage preserved for the world by the west when in fact it is a gift from God given through brown Asian people from the far West of Asia. It is worth keeping our religious and philosophical roots in view so that we are not robbed of our inheritance by flimflam propagated by some in the "third world" and in "the old world" too.
