Posted on 01/14/2015 3:50:13 AM PST by Altura Ct.
For the last few decades, Western civilization has been attempting to avoid the difficult levels of thought -- analysis, synthesis, and most of all, evaluation. No one wants to be the one to point a finger and say, “That’s just wrong.” For one thing, as we learned from Charlie Hebdo, doing so can get you killed. But we also know that repercussions can take other forms as well -- job loss, lawsuits, public ridicule, and personal rejection (I don’t have as many friends as I used to). We have been basking in the luxury of sloppy, pseudo-intellectual mock thinking and it may cost us everything. The horrors of 9/11, the Boston bombing, the Fort Hood shooting, and the Paris massacre demand that civilized people adjust their thinking about two closely-related ideas: multiculturalism and compromise.
As a long-time veteran of public schools I can speak to the influence of multiculturalism in our education systems. It appears to be the result of our attempt to rid the public square of Christian influence and replace it with a purely human credo; rather than teach students to discern good from bad in the biblical sense, we’ve taken the easy road and decided to go with “tolerance” also known as “multiculturalism.” If nothing is truly bad, then we can all skip down the road together, holding hands and singing "People of the World". No judgment, no shame; no shame, no retaliation; no retaliation, no war. That’s the dream.
That works just fine as long as the cultures we have to deal with are not noticeably different from our own. Western societies, steeped for so many centuries in the Christian worldview, can live side-by-side without the necessity for repudiation...
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A good, accurate and well written assessment of our current situation.
Well written and reasoned article. Therefore, it has no weight in this amoral, unreasonable world of lies and liars.
IMO our motto should be...”If you like your ‘culture’ more than the American culture you should stay where your ‘culture’ is practiced and live with what that ‘culture’ created.”
There is no need for compromise. Moslems are welcome to join any christian denomination they can stomach.
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