This essay asks two questions: Are Europeans in the throes of passive cultural and political suicide as they ignore the threat of fanatical Muslims in their communities?
Today...yes...tomorrow...?
And if so, have the leaders of the Democratic Party in America joined the Europeans in sleepwalking towards a precipice?
Absolutly. Way too many in the democrat party (the leadershio) don't take the threat of Radical Islam seriously. They look at it like they would a farm bill, just another issue to beat up the republicans with.
"There are two major political parties in this country. The evil party and the stupid party. I am a member of the stupid party."
Dennis Prager
Makes good points. A little long.
The question becomes,
How bad will terrorism have to get before Europe and the Democrats wake up and respond to this threat?
Is the taking out of Israel enough to make everyone happy?
I had a college professor of world history, appropriately named Dr. Faust, who somehow had come to believe that Martin Luther was responsible for breeding Hitler. This fantasy brings to mind G.K. Chesterton's maxim that "A man who won't believe in God will believe anything."
Dr. Faust found out that I had conservative ideas. He asked about my denominational affiliations, whether I approved of a denominational merger, and whether I preferred blondes to brunettes, among other strange questions. I later realized that he was probing to see if I had an "authoritarian personality" according to Adorno's theory. Very much later, I came to understood that his inexplicable hostility towards me was rooted in the forest fears of liberal mythology.
The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege (Hardcover)
by Damon Linker
http://www.amazon.com/Theocons-Secular-America-Under-Siege/dp/0385516479
From Publishers Weekly
Conventional wisdom on the left holds that conservatives bring up issues ranging from abortion and gay rights to the teaching of evolution primarily as a cynical ploy to activate their political base, but Linker challenges that notion by detailing the inner workings of the "theoconservative" movement. He describes it as a group of mostly Catholic intellectuals who view American society in sometimes apocalyptic terms, whose absolute and uncompromising moral framework for law—their ultimate goal is "the end of secular politics"—holds great sway in Republican circles. Primarily and almost obsessively concerned with Richard John Neuhaus and his journal First Things, Linker's exposé sometimes makes it seem as if the political philosophy that animates perhaps a quarter of the electorate is essentially a one-man show. More curious is that, though his words drip with disdain for virtually every position championed by the magazine, Linker himself was an editor at First Things until barely a year before his book's publication. This book may leave readers yearning for a more broad-based study of how Neuhaus—whose journal has a circulation of well under 50,000—and his ilk have managed to motivate a resurgence of politically minded religiosity in such a large number of Americans. (Sept. 19)
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From Booklist
Linker informs us of a tiny cabal of -activist-propagandists who have forged an alliance between right-wing Catholics and Evangelical Christians that has worked so effectively for the Republican Party that President Bush, in particular, accepts its advice. The cabal's leader is leftist Lutheran minister turned hyperdogmatic Catholic priest Richard John Neuhaus, the founding editor in chief of First Things, the flagship journal of the cabal's movement, which Linker, once on staff at First Things, calls theoconservatism. Neuhaus' 1984 book The Naked Public Square advanced the idea that secularism forces religious voices out of public debates; conservative Jews as well as Christians found Neuhaus' notion very persuasive and politically useful. Linker believes that, however admirable its goals may be, theoconservatism at best misunderstands and at worst despises American liberal democracy, especially the wisdom of the separation of church and state. Linker's literate, reasonable chronicle and assessment of the theocons, that of an erstwhile colleague who shows no personal animus toward his former associates, is one of the most enlightening critiques of the Religious Right to date. Ray Olson
They have devolved into cultures of death.
I guess we'll just have to save them...AGAIN!
Political Correctness:
”A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority,
and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media,
which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible
to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Unless stopped – and soon – PC will DESTROY Western Civilization.
Good read. The organization that published this is affiliated with Alan Keyes, as I understand it.
It may have all started with Nietszche's "God is dead" pronouncement for Europe, and now Europe is nearly dead. The European left, the fascist right, the existentialists all jumped on board that statement, leading to the hard and soft nihilism sell of "all is permitted." Multiculturalism, loss of esteem, hedonism, romanticism all point to an inherent lack of faith and a moral retreat. The promise of personal liberation from every taboo means the virulent taboos will breed with fury and weaken the Christian culture. The well of self hatred runs deep.
Inwardly, they know that they are living selfish meaningless lives, and so they have a sense of guilt about that. But they do not want to judged by others as actually being guilty of that, so they say that it is wrong to pass judgement on anyone. Is that partly what is going on?
I usually thought that the "don't judge others" routine was mostly a ruse, that the Libs consciously used, to keep us from not judging their evil ways.
Later read/possible pingout.
bflr
Liberals live in a bubble and are delusional to evil in the world. They think if you leave evil alone it will stay contained but evil seeks to rule the world .