[Thorin]

It's interesting that you take offense at Buchanan for proclaiming the superiority of the culture of the West, which he sees as being rooted in Christianity. (Buchanan's belief in the Christian basis of Western culture certainly sets him apart from the Nazis, by the way).

Feel free to test your belief in the equality of all cultures by moving to Afghanistan, India, or Burundi anytime you wish.

[Who is George Salt?]

It's interesting that you take offense at Buchanan for proclaiming the superiority of the culture of the West, which he sees as being rooted in Christianity.

"But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country, was Jesus of Nazareth. Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separable from that as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of man. The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this benevolent morality, and the rescuing it from the imputation of imposture, which has resulted from artificial systems, invented by ultra-Christian sects (The immaculate conception of Jesus, his deification, the creation of the world by him, his miraculous powers, his resurrection and visible ascension, his corporeal presence in the Eucharist, the Trinity; original sin, atonement, regeneration, election, orders of the Hierarchy, etc.) is a most desirable object."

-- Thomas Jefferson, to W. Short, Oct. 31, 1819

Apparently, I'm in good company.