Can we have equality without God?

 I've been saying for about 25 years now, that we cannot actually sustain notions like "human rights" or "universal human dignity" without God, without the sacred.  And I don't mean any old 'god' or 'religion' either, but specifically the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God who came among us in the person of Jesus.  The God of the Bible, in other words, is the reason that it was Western Civilization - aka "Christendom" - that developed and spread (through colonialism and imperialism) the idea of human value and human equality.  

There are good reasons that this notion did not develop in Mayan or ancient Chinese or even Islamic Civilizations.  It is a Christian (or, if you like, "Judeo-Christian") idea.  It is a teaching of the Bible, beginning from the first page.

Now, as I've said in other videos, I think more and more non-religious or 'less-religious' or 'spiritual-but-not-religious' Westerners are waking up to the truth that without Christ and the Bible, without Christianity, many of the things that they love best about Western Civilization, begin to fade away.  

Will they do the obvious thing and start devoting themselves to the spread of Christianity? 
Will they go to church, give to missions, bring their children and grand-children (even if they aren't sure what to make of the theology and beliefs)?   That's not everything they need to do, but it would be a good beginning.  At the end of the day, however, Christ did not come to build Western Civilization.  He came to save our souls from eternal death as we turn to him with repentance and living faith. 
May our world wake up to that truth as well.