Provocative
Bears thinking about
Terrific article.
I was at one time in a place where the only western TV news I could get was an hour late at night of CNN International.
When you watch CNN in the US, its bad enough, but you see it within a kind of context. You know what the US is, in its essence, and whatever claptrap CNN is putting out gets viewed with that as the backdrop.
But cut off from that, with CNN International as the entirety of what you know, the US looks like an insane asylum, a corrupt, filthy, immoral sewer of an insane asylum.
And that is the view that the rest of the world has of us. Those who have visited here, lived here or studied here, know there is a much more complete story. But for the rest, all you see is madness. So muslims who would try to evangelize me assumed they were doing me a favor, that I would be happy to accept their moral vision, since I was obviously a decent guy unlike the rest of my compatriots as seen on CNN International.
Yeah, because we were so reasonable and communal during the Inquisition and the religious wars that scarred the Middle Ages.
What utter claptrap!
The foundation of the Western world view was Christianity. Without its underpinnings, freedom becomes license, and license begets oppressive government to keep order. Our Founders understood this when they encouraged religion as the essential ingredient of democracy. When Secularists took over education in the West and defamed the importance of religion, this bulwark started crumbling. Look at the results in every Western democracy. The West will be overrun by Islam, and freedom will be dead.
They want to impose western values without the underlying virtues. Separate "western civ" from Judeo-Christian thought and belief, and you have all of the horrors that are the flip side of western history.
Certainly people who are ashamed of the very notion of virtue aren't going to be able to evangelize for anything other than their own shallow and denatured understanding of their own culture... of which at heart they are also ashamed.
"Western" neo-pagans have nothing to offer the muslim world. Christians do. But they have to get their eyes off their culture and even their politics and fixed firmly on the Father. You can't navigate the storm and fog without your compass firmly in hand.
I think the author confuses modernism with post-modernism which has taken control of our culture over the past several decades.
It denies the existence of objective reality and even logic itself. It is pure delusion and like most delusions it will ultimately crash and burn.
The Gods of the copybook headings with slaughter and terror will return.
Islam cannot tolerate any amount of different opinion. I saw the following text on a sign carried by a London protester, “Freedom, go to hell.”