No - 99% of human beings (young children aside) were being bad.
And were going to Hell.
To prevent this horror continuing, God sent the Flood.
And even many of the 99% of baddies repented when the storms and flood began !
The Golden Age of Islam was certainly creative - but it wasn't liberal.
Europe was then in a Dark Age of poverty and confusion due to : (1) the collapse of the Roman Empire, (2) attacks from Vikings, Magyars and (above all) Muslims.
Only thanks to Christianity and the Catholic Church did...
Liberty (free will) necessarily creates the possibility of evil. Both nature and human nature are not yet fully redeemed (but will be, for those willing to be fully redeemed.).
God is omnipotent - but refuses to use His omnipotence to turn His creations into benevolent puppets.
God certainly...
The Church of Constantine died in the 1960's; the RCC has been in limbo since.
The problem is Clericalism. The ordination of women would double-up, not solve, the problem.
It would also wreck the Church by handing control over it to middle-class radical feminists.
Yes, but only by destroying the liberty of His rational creations, angels and human beings.
Hell began when Lucifer and his angels launched a failed coup d'etat against God (who is Goodness) and became eternally evil in consequence.
God didn't want them to become evil.
Countries like China and India - despite their wonderful civilisations - were very much stuck in a groove of Custom (despite Confucius, despite the Buddha) until the West with its Christian ideas burst in on them.
The Chinese were greater inventors (e.g. paper, gunpowder) than the Europeans -...
By Christian teaching, God is infinitely kind and merciful.
If it was up to God, everyone would go to Heaven.
Unfortunately it's up to us as human beings - and some people choose evil and thus don't make it to Heaven.
Religion can't be solitary - it is a community exercise, therefore must be organised.
No society can exist without religion - which is why our modern, non-religious societies are collapsing.
There is a veil between us and the spiritual realm.
It is there for our own protection.
Where are all these Non-Christians living beautiful and happy lives ?
They don't exist.