Air - Johann Sebastian Bach (vanity)

The "Air" by Johann Sebastian Bach from the 3rd Suite for Orchestra (D major; BWV 1068)

The gift of Christianity has bestowed to humanity "Western Civilization", the most beneficent civilization humanity has ever experienced. Greek and Roman philosophy is a glimmer of the deep thought and Revelation of Augustine and Aquinas. Their thoughts laid the ground for the Enlightenment and thence the realization that all are created equal and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights - an idea expressed explicitly by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, the foundation of the United States.

There is no other civilization or government now or ever that has explicitly acknowledged that all are equal and that all possess inalienable rights bestowed upon them by their Creator. ONLY the Constitution for the United States has done so. THIS is American Exceptionalism. This is the greatest social and political achievement of Humanity.

Please enjoy this music by J. S. Bach while reflecting upon various civilizations and their premises and achievements. Has any other civilization produced such sublime music? Could they? Are any other civilizations premised upon love thy neighbor? Do any other civilizations acknowledge and respect the individual or do they seek to control the individual by force in order to fulfill the plans of others?

The West is the best.

More specifically, the Christian West is the best. The false ideas of Marx, ideas which deify humanity instead of a transcendent God, are not Christian and are not Western. They have crushed humanity and have cost hundreds of millions of lives. The ideas of Marx appeal to human vanity and are Satanic.

Only Christian ideals, mores, and love, have given humanity the greatest benefit. Only it could.

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