Posted on 10/17/2018 12:19:55 PM PDT by unlearner
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The mesmerizing ad ends with these words on screen: "Unlock your past. Inspire your future. Ancestry."
There are currently over 10 million people in Ancestry's DNA database, each of whom sent the company $99 plus tiny bit of saliva, hoping to discover more about where they came from, who they're related to, what they're made of, what hidden gifts might lie dormant within them – in short, who they really are.
While a few fortunate customers are reunited with long-lost relatives, most people, in return for paying for the privilege of giving their most private, personal data – their DNA – to a giant online company, are content with gaining some exciting trivia about their ethnic ancestry to share with friends.
But are we really somehow heir to the noble virtues of our ancestors? ...
Journalist Heather Mac Donald, author most recently of "The Diversity Delusion," reveals that even Americas scientific and engineering infrastructure is being threatened by a disastrous preoccupation with diversity.
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I'll give C.S. Lewis the last word. In the final paragraphs of "Mere Christianity," one of the most loved Christian books of the last century....
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
A bit of a read but worth it.
Somehow I doubt that our ancestors' virtues were any more (or less, for that matter) than ours are today.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
...Guilt. Fear. Lust for power. Lies. Blame.
Rage. Dependency. Social contagion. Insanity.
That’s what the left’s societal redemption campaign
called “identity politics” really boils down to.
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I read this article this morning. One of my favorites of the day.
"noble virtues of our ancestors"Somehow I doubt that our ancestors' virtues were any more (or less, for that matter) than ours are today.
Our ancestors were jerks. Embrace it.
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