[expat1000]

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[blue-duncan]

That is one of the best commentaries posted this year.

[left that other site]

One of the BEST!

[nathanbedford]

I echo Bill Bennett's off quoted maxim, "culture trumps politics." I think he was quoting Senator Moynihan.

Evidently, the left accepts the premise as well and we have seen the way they have a ravaged the culture through their agents working under the rubric of The Frankfurt School. If the Frankfurt school had been around in 1775 it is improbable that we would have found men of courage to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

But the left is not satisfied with attacking the culture as such, it goes to attacking our value system until it leaves us with only the bitter dregs of relativism. Worse, it attacks our epistemology, how do we know what we know and believe what we believe? They have largely succeeded in planting a harvest of cynicism which so enervates a culture that it becomes enervated from self doubt, ignorance, and selfishness.

Relevant to the survival of a society in a Hobbesian international world is not the high quality of the art one hangs on his wall but whether he summons fidelity to what is true. That means that a culture knows what it believes and why and actually values truth in which it has confidence.

What has the Democrat party done to edify our culture?

[Lake Living]

Well, a lot of words for the readers that don’t really want to address the “causes” issue directly. For a more pointed article with far more clarity and that addresses the problem of evil head on, try this post from yesterday http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2973515/posts

[corkoman]

Daniel is batting 1000 - no fluff, no fat. He is that jazz musician who has mastered his musical instrument and brings to this club masterful notes and deft phrasings.

can you please add me to the ping list - thanks.