Posted on 08/19/2015 6:27:05 AM PDT by fredericbastiat1
Michael Walsh’s new book The Devil’s Pleasure Palace is pivotal in its explication of how poor and purely evil ideas have subverted America, and eaten away at the pillars of Western civilization.
While we often hear the refrain “ideas have consequences,” too frequently we attribute the decline of the American system to politics or particular political figures, while giving the power of ideas short thrift.
But as Walsh’s important work illustrates, ideas are everything, and if you lose the war of them you lose all of the other battles too.
One such idea that has trumped to date deals with “History” — which you would not dare be on the wrong side of — as if some metaphysical Berlin Wall.
Here is what Walsh has to say on the matter:
(Excerpt) Read more at benweingarten.com ...
bfl
Just listen to Hillary's interview w BLM....!!
“We can't change hearts, we have to change the laws...”
THAT is TYRANY!
Ask an atheistic materialist if Galileo was unjustly treated, where does that injustice preside in the strictly material universe?
Tyranny makes up much of history, sad to say. But man evolves and grows out of such ways. But, that being said, tyranny has its good side—building stable nation-states, bringing peace. The First tyrant we know about was Sargon, a slave who became king and built an empire in the Middle East—an empire that brought 150 years of peace to that part of the world. No small feat for the Middle East! He did it by being a mean cuss feared by his enemies.
What is the end result of the votes of 200 million sinners?
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