Posted on 11/25/2015 6:22:25 AM PST by Kaslin
We're in a world today increasingly defined by chaos. At home it's on our college campuses. Abroad it's spreading across the Middle East and spilling over into Europe.
Who do we have to thank for it all? Liberals and moral relativists in power in our country and Europe.
Liberals have led the way to destroy all sense of moral clarity in our nation, all objective sense of right and wrong and all sense of authority.
What's the common ground of these distant and seemingly totally disconnected worlds -- American college campuses and a chaotic Islamic Middle East? In both places, those who claim to have all the answers are the very ones who should be humbly asking questions and seeking knowledge.
Aren't universities allegedly where youths go to learn?
The students causing problems do not arrive on campus to seek knowledge. They arrive already knowing it all, looking to instruct professors rather than to learn from them. And the weak-kneed liberal faculties and administrators at universities agree!
Today's upside-down world can be directly traced to the purge of the values and principles of our country's Judeo-Christian heritage. Milestones of this process are the purge of school prayer in 1962, legalization of abortion-on-demand in 1973 and redefinition of marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015.
Once the Bible goes out the window, reality gets invented by politicians.
Ironically, the tradition of higher learning in America is rooted in the church.
Look at the website of Yale, where there is student unrest, and discover the clerical roots of the university.
Yale University "traces its roots to the 1640s when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a local college to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision was fulfilled in 1701, when a charter was granted for the school 'wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences (and) through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Public employment both in Church and Civil State.'"
Regarding campus unrest tied to allegations of racism, we have the same problem. Despite the fact that the civil rights movement succeeded because of its Christian roots and Christian leadership, today, thanks to liberals, it is all about politics.
It is no secret that slavery and racism are shameful blots on America's history. But Judeo-Christian values are not about claiming the world is perfect. They are about transmitting the right values, principles and tools to individuals to take personal responsibility to perfect this broken world. This is in contrast to liberals, who invent their own illusions about the world and blame everyone else for their problems.
What about the Middle East?
The world of Islam is horribly broken. By some estimates illiteracy rates average 40 percent. As I wrote a few weeks ago, of 31 nations with populations more than 90 percent Muslim, two are free by the measurement of Freedom House in Washington, D.C.
According to "100 Years of Nobel Prizes," published in 2003, between the years 1901 and 2000 65.4 percent of Nobel laureates were Christians and 20 percent were Jews (who make up just .2 percent of the world's population). Muslims, despite being 20 percent of the world's population, achieved just .8 percent of Nobel prizes in that time. A world of 1.2 billion Muslims produced just 5 Nobel laureates over a century.
Instead of this broken Islamic world hearing from the West that they need to fix themselves, they hear from President Obama that our values are "tolerance and diversity and equality" and that the problem is a handful of terrorists and not the world of Islam itself.
Look no further than liberals holding positions of leadership in the West to understand why we live in an increasingly chaotic and dangerous world. If we want to fix the world, we must fix ourselves and restore the kind of values and leadership we need.
“Liberals have led the way to destroy all sense of moral clarity in our nation, all objective sense of right and wrong and all sense of authority.”
“If we want to fix the world, we must fix ourselves and restore the kind of values and leadership we need.”
Thank you, Star Parker! :)
Chaos and mass death mean fewer people on the earth, and the hope of a centrally governed paradise.
As someone once said, the gap between what you know and what you realize there is to know is greatest in your sophomore college year. That was certainly true when I was in college, some 60 years ago. By the time you earn your PhD, of course, you are the world's authority on the subject of your dissertation.
I don't think the students appreciate that nowadays. They come to college already knowing it all. They don't need a PhD to be the world's authority on something.
Spot on
That point should be shouted from the rooftops.
Leftists (and RINO collaborators) have made such an utter mess of our economy, culture, and foreign policy, our very existence is threatened.
Ignorant gov’t masses may have been unknowing of the consequences of their vote.
Those elected into higher office know exactly what they are doing, and deserve the harshest judgement and penalty.
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a larger state. In other words, a butterfly flapping its wings in Texas can cause later a typhoon in the Japanese Sea.
Think about it, in mid-20th Century America an 18 year old pot smoking hippie freshman slut in a Honolulu college has sex with an older Kenyan politician on a student visa, who has a wife and child back in Africa, and from this "roll in the hay" comes the collapse and dissolution of America in the 21st Century.
Interesting isn't it, and it makes you a firm believer in the "butterfly effect."
Truth. Could start by admitting how disengenuous the term "Liberal" really is. Our classic liberals would be turning over in their grave knowing how bad today's socialists have perverted the name.
Such truths will fall on intentionally deaf liberal ears.
Liberals have no capacity for accountability, responsibility, or feel any remorse when their actions create disaster for the rest of us.
They simply shrug their collective shoulders, make no apology, and move on to the next cause du jour. And their firm belief in their moral and intellectual superiority is unshakable.
Baseball bats?
Star Parker and Michele Malkin are always a must read.
“Thanks Liberals...”
Nah.
Thank the scu&bags who vote for them.
IMHO
It is my experience that when you earn your PhD, you become painfully aware of just how much you do not know and can never know. You may be the world's authority on the subject of your dissertation, but that subject is a minuscule slice of a larger topic that no one will ever completely know.
The problem with the tantrum-throwing college kids these days is not that they know far less than they think they know, but that they will never learn enough to realize just how little they really do know.
You're right, of course. Just because you're the world's authority on your dissertation subject doesn't mean you know much about anything else
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