Otto Von Bismarck knew this, Cyrus the Great, Harry Truman, and Winston Churchill knew this.
In fact, it's safe to say that a serious nation-state can prosper or reach great heights, with only two allies
1. Russians in defense
2. The Jews in economy
Two things
1. Favorable treaty with the Russians
2. Free and protect the Jews
All great warriors and great diplomats who are students of history know that the Russians have a level of tenacity and a sense of sacrifice unmatched.
Ideologies and economies can be outmaneuvered and destroyed but cultured great houses in the countryside who are the stronger back of these beautiful and ancient great cultures, cultures that gave us great Sages and great inventions cannot be extinguished by external forces
What happened to the great Japanese Samurai spirit? What happened to the Chinese Sage and Tao spirit. What is a nation without its wise, prudent, cultural country, peasant, and noble spirit.
What happened to the ancient great Chinese and Japanesedynastic houses in the countryside
I used to think Christians were naive. I thought faith in God was just an emotional crutch for people who could not handle reality.
Now I think the opposite.
The more seriously I looked at life, history, suffering, conscience, beauty, evil, and the limits of human reason, the less convincing atheism became.
Because everyone has faith. Everyone. The only real question is where that faith is placed.
In God, or in man.
I was taught that intelligence means distance from God. But what is so intelligent about believing that matter somehow produced mind, that chaos somehow produced order, that chemistry somehow produced conscience, and that human beings can ground morality by themselves while constantly contradicting even their own standards?
If we are only matter, then human dignity is just a useful story. Love is chemistry. Evil is preference. Sacrifice is irrational. Meaning is self invented. But almost no one actually lives that way. We all live as if truth matters, as if cruelty is really wrong, as if beauty means something, as if love is more than a chemical reaction, and as if justice should exist even when it costs us.
That is not nothing. That points beyond survival.
The Bible understood this long before modern people started pretending they had outgrown it.
Genesis grounds human dignity in the image of God. That means people are not valuable because they are productive, attractive, healthy, or useful. They are valuable because they bear His image.
John 1 does not begin with chaos. It begins with the Logos. Reason, order, meaning. Reality is not random noise. It is intelligible because it comes from a mind greater than ours.
Ecclesiastes says that pleasure, work, success, and achievement collapse into vanity when cut off from God. Anyone who has chased status, money, sex, or recognition long enough knows how true that is.
Romans 1 says creation points beyond itself. And it does. The order of the world, the mathematical beauty of reality, the existence of consciousness, the hunger for meaning, the presence of moral knowledge, these are not small things.
And history teaches the same lesson. The bloodiest experiments of the last century did not come from too much faith in God. They came from man trying to replace God with ideology, state, race, class, or power. When God is removed, something else always takes His place. Usually something crueler.
Christianity also does not begin with a vague spiritual feeling. It makes a historical claim. That Christ entered history, was crucified, and rose again. You can reject that claim, but it is not the same as saying faith is just blind comfort. Christianity stands or falls on what it says actually happened.
So no, I no longer think faith in God is stupid.
I think one of the most shallow ideas modern people were ever sold is that disbelief is automatically intelligent.
Sometimes disbelief is not depth. Sometimes it is pride.
And sometimes faith is not an escape from reality. It is what remains when you look at reality honestly enough and realize that man is not enough, matter is not enough, and this world cannot explain itself.
I used to think Christians were foolish.
Now I think many of them simply saw earlier what I was too proud to see.
A Statistics student thinks the only option is banking.
A Physics graduate believes teaching is the only path.
An Agricultural student assumes the only future is farming.
But thatโs not the full picture.
Every degree sits inside an industry ecosystem.
Statistics feeds data science, finance, insurance, research, artificial intelligence.
Physics feeds energy systems, semiconductor technology, instrumentation, aerospace, defense industries.
Agriculture feeds food manufacturing, supply chains, agri-tech, sustainability systems, export markets.
The problem is not the course.
The problem is industry awareness.
Most students are trained to pass exams, not to understand the economic system their knowledge belongs to.
Once you understand the industry behind your course, everything changes.
You know what tools to learn.
You know what certifications matter.
You know where opportunities actually exist.
Your degree stops feeling like a prison and starts becoming a foundation.
@naimatapeigitau Enslaved more than blacks, almost all superpowers except the Persians through Cyrus and America have tried to supress them.
Had German attained superpowers' status, it would have extinguished them. The never again is serious, and a nation never outsource its safety