Which is why people need to understand them.
They will not fight and die for something they don’t understand and admit to themselves is worth fighting for.
You wrote: “...They will not fight and die for something they don’t understand and admit to themselves is worth fighting for.”
True. bttt
“...First, atheism is petty and unworthy of man. No one would kill for it, just as no one would die for it, since it is the substance of meaninglessness, precisely. Why sacrifice one’s life for the principle that there are no transcendent principles worth dying for?
“The least of atheism’s baleful effects is that it automatically makes the hero a fool because there is nothing worth defending. The more catastrophic effect is that it leaves the field open to evil-doers who are openly hostile to the transcendent principles that animate our uniquely decent and beautiful civilization.
“This is why you see an Old Europe that is supine before the barbarians in its midst who wish to destroy it. Socialism has nothing to do with “generosity” or selflessness; rather, it is the quintessence of selfishness, and diminishes a man down to the conviction that his animal needs should be provided for by someone else.
“The only thing that can rouse his passion is a threat to his entitlements. Only if the Islamists were to threaten their 12 weeks of paid vacation would they be taken seriously by socialist EUnuchs. ....”
Here: http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-sons-of-liberty-and-cosmic.html
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The Unthinkable Goodness of America
http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2006/12/unthinkable-goodness-of-america.html