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Sobering voices tell us nowadays that the civilization in which we participate is not long for this world. Many countries have fallen under the domination of squalid oligarchs; other lands are reduced to anarchy. “Cultural revolution,” rejecting our patrimony of learning and manners, has done nearly as much mischief in the West as in the East, if less violently. Religious belief is attenuated at best, for many-or else converted, after being secularized, into an instrument for social transformation. Books give way to television and videos; universities, intellectually democratized, are sunk to the condition of centers for job-certification. An increasing proportion of the population, in America especially, is dehumanized by addiction to narcotics and insane sexuality.
These afflictions are only some of the symptoms of social and personal disintegration. One has but to look at our half-ruined American cities, with their ghastly rates of murder and rape, to perceive that we moderns lack the moral imagination and the right reason required to maintain tolerable community. Writers in learned quarterlies or in daily syndicated columns use the terms “post-Christian era” or “post-modern epoch” to imply that we are breaking altogether with our cultural past, and are entering upon some new age of a bewildering character.
Well, to completely instal one “cult”, the sitting “cult” must be displaced.
Western civilization’s “cult” is perilously close to being completely displace; by the competing cults of government(communism), islam(animalistic savagery).
I would tend to agree except in the case of islime. Far from promoting cooperation and advancement, it has done little more than set sub-cults at each others' throats, inhibited progress and destroyed what little has been made, and established "communities" of tyranny and oppression, united only by the fear of nonconformance. And that applies both internally -- within islime itself -- and externally.
Sure, the same could be said about Christianity during the various religious wars that punctuated the Reformation and its aftermath (and still marks the uneasy truce in Northern Ireland). But Christianity survived those upheavals and despite them, propagated its faith around the globe, bringing with it a prosperity and level of civilization unmatched since the Roman Empire.
Islime leaves nothing in its wake but terror, chaos, and death.
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Imposable.... It wouldn't be civilized..!!
Imagine, if you will, a civilization ran completely by the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Michel Moore and Harry Reed... It would be a whole Nation that looked like and functioned like....Detroit...or Boston... If the Fed wasn't there to support and take care of those folk....well sooner or later it would fall into complete chaos...
Gee....kind of like the way we're headed now....
MHO....
That “slim volume” is on Kindle, btw.
The end of civilization.
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Not possible.
Good government not only probably requires divine intervention, but is probably impossible without it...