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To: HiTech RedNeck
Theodore Dalrymple has written some amazing works exploring what the erosion of values-set in motion by the elites-has done to society, and to the underclass in particular.

Even though he's not a believer, I think he makes a compelling case against the untethered hedonism and materialism that's come to dominate the West, especially over the past century.

3 posted on 02/27/2017 3:09:40 PM PST by OddLane
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To: OddLane

It’s pretty well come because the West thought it could out-think the spiritual (and moral, which derives from spiritual) lessons of the bible.

With privilege comes the potential for abuse.

Someone doesn’t even have to be religious in the sense we know it, to grasp the wisdom of God. Donald Trump is a particularly good example. Scarcely caring about the formalities of church, he has somehow managed to embrace a very robustly godly civic view. God does work in mysterious ways, and His whispers to the willing can be worth more than all the churchly thunderation in the world. It kind of humbles our religion, but also provides the basis for exalting it once more.


9 posted on 02/27/2017 7:36:10 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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