It depends on what you mean by civilized. Most "civilized" nations condemn capital punishment as "uncivilized barbarity". However, the same nations consider the abortion of babies as morally justified and civilized.
When abortion is legal it becomes a capital offence to be an unwanted baby! If euthanasia is legalized "medical assassins" will soon have the knives in the aged and incurable. Can we call a country civilized when pornography and homosexuality is protected by law but parents who give their children a loving Biblical hiding are found guilty of "child-abuse" because of a ban on corporal punishment?
Secular humanists will answer with a resounding "yes". Christians, who stand on God's unchangeable Word, answer with a firm "no".
Pagan man defies the absolute authority of God's Holy Law and ends up calling evil good and good evil. The result is the opposite of civilization. Consequently, "the earth is filled with violence through them" (Gene 5:13) and "because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil" (Eccl 8:11).
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