I think that yes, modern-day secular values and morals have greatly benefitted Christians. Having moved away from so-called Biblical morality, we're all better off, and that includes Christians.
A good example of Christians better off now that we no longer rely on the Bible for morals are Christian kids. The Bible prescribes the barbaric practice of beating children and even killing them under some circumstances. Christian boys and girls are now protected from that kind of violence due to our replacing the Bible with reason.
Other groups benefitting from non-Biblical morality are gays, lesbians, and transsexuals. When men who proclaimed themselves to be God's prophets ruled, men caught in homosexual acts were to be executed. Today Christian gays need not live in fear of being murdered that way. All gays and lesbians including those who are Christians can now enjoy sex freely. We've even advanced to allowing same-sex marriage and are moving away from seeing transsexuals as freaks.
Women including Christian women are now benefitting from secular morality. According to the Bible, any woman caught in adultery and her lover were to be executed regardless of any mitigating circumstances. If a woman was raped, she could be executed for it! Jesus reputedly disallowed divorce under any circumstances except infidelity condemning many generations of women to being neglected and abused by their husbands. In all circumstances Christian "morality" meant second-class status for women forced to obey their husbands and to be his chattel. Thanks to our replacing injustices like that with more humane ways of seeing women, women including Christian women are now free to vote, divorce abusive husbands without shame and remarry, have greater control over how many children they must bear, and have many other rights and opportunities they were denied under Christian morality.
Other Christian groups benefitting from non-Biblical morality are small Christian sects that are seen as heretical by mainstream Christianity. Thanks to secularism, people including many Christians are now free to believe in whatever they want without fear of punishment. When Christianity ruled with its Biblically inspired morality, people who were seen as wrong in their Christian beliefs were often imprisoned, tortured, and executed. Secularism has done away with such barbarism in most developed nations, and millions of Christians are enjoying freedoms they never had before!
So we can see that yes, Christians for the most part are much better off now that we no longer impose Biblical morality on them. We're all better off thanks to secularism.
A good example of Christians better off now that we no longer rely on the Bible for morals are Christian kids. The Bible prescribes the barbaric practice of beating children and even killing them under some circumstances. Christian boys and girls are now protected from that kind of violence due to our replacing the Bible with reason.
Other groups benefitting from non-Biblical morality are gays, lesbians, and transsexuals. When men who proclaimed themselves to be God's prophets ruled, men caught in homosexual acts were to be executed. Today Christian gays need not live in fear of being murdered that way. All gays and lesbians including those who are Christians can now enjoy sex freely. We've even advanced to allowing same-sex marriage and are moving away from seeing transsexuals as freaks.
Women including Christian women are now benefitting from secular morality. According to the Bible, any woman caught in adultery and her lover were to be executed regardless of any mitigating circumstances. If a woman was raped, she could be executed for it! Jesus reputedly disallowed divorce under any circumstances except infidelity condemning many generations of women to being neglected and abused by their husbands. In all circumstances Christian "morality" meant second-class status for women forced to obey their husbands and to be his chattel. Thanks to our replacing injustices like that with more humane ways of seeing women, women including Christian women are now free to vote, divorce abusive husbands without shame and remarry, have greater control over how many children they must bear, and have many other rights and opportunities they were denied under Christian morality.
Other Christian groups benefitting from non-Biblical morality are small Christian sects that are seen as heretical by mainstream Christianity. Thanks to secularism, people including many Christians are now free to believe in whatever they want without fear of punishment. When Christianity ruled with its Biblically inspired morality, people who were seen as wrong in their Christian beliefs were often imprisoned, tortured, and executed. Secularism has done away with such barbarism in most developed nations, and millions of Christians are enjoying freedoms they never had before!
So we can see that yes, Christians for the most part are much better off now that we no longer impose Biblical morality on them. We're all better off thanks to secularism.