snip: If there was one true characteristic of the founders of this country, and almost every citizen of it since that has made any true contribution to it, it is individualism
Spirited: The definition of man as an individual person has its’ only basis in the person of Jesus Christ who walked this earth as a man. If Jesus Christ had not walked this earth as an individual and called each member of His flock by their individual names, the monism of materialist-pantheism would have reduced all men to ‘oneness’ with nature. Individualism, btw, is a perversion of the definition of man as an individual.
snip: Can a Jew not hold and live by the principles this country was founded on? How about a hard working Japanese engineer, whose family was Shinto but does not himself have religion?
Spirited: Yes, of course. That said, it is resentment of Christianity in particular that drives the destruction of this once great civilization.
Two books I recommend to you:
William J. Federer’s “Back-Fired: A Nation Born for Religious Tolerance No Longer Tolerates Religion.” As Federer makes very clear, the one religion that is no longer tolerated is the that is the worldview foundation of America-—orthodox Christianity, particularly Protestanism.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin’s “America’s Real War,” in which he reveals that it is powerful Christianity-resenting atheistic-Jews behind so very much of this nation’s troubles. For writing this book, Lapin’s life has been threatened.
It’s not a criticism, most people do not, but I think you may know little of history of the early Greeks, especially the philosophers. If you have an opportunity to learn of them, or if I’m mistaken, and you do know them, how was it that so many of them were so independent and individualistic (Socrates, for example)—they all preceded Jesus’ birth?
I have no idea what this means to you. It sophistry to me.
“Individualism, btw, is a perversion of the definition of man as an individual.”
An individualist is the opposite of a collectivist. Or do you think “collectivist” is a perversion of the definition of socialism as favoring “collective mankind” or “society” over individual men? In any case I do not think you know what an individualist means by individualism.
http://usabig.com/iindv/articles_stand/individual/whatisindividual.php
“... it is resentment of Christianity in particular that drives the destruction of this once great civilization.”
I have no doubt that a great many people, especially those who have swallowed the leftist Kool Aid despise Christianity, even when they know little or nothing about it beyond the fact that Christians, at least, have values. To resent something, I think you must at least know something about it.
What is destroying this country and this culture is a very simple thing, but it is complex and takes many forms, but in all it’s forms it is an assault on reason, on truth, and on independent individuals of character and decency, because they are an endictment of every relativist, hedonist, and seoncd-hander of every stripe, and of which our society is mostly comprised today.
http://usabig.com/iindv/articles_stand/objectivism/three_books.php
The link is to a short article I wrote some time ago defending Christianity against the assault of a small group of “philosophers,” in particular, but also against the general assault Christianity is under today. I am not a theist.
I’m not trying to convince you of anything, or change your mind about anything except, possibly, a mistaken assumption about those who are not theists. Most people automatically assume, because I do not believe in God, I must be an evolutionist, which I am most certainly not; or that I am what is called a materialist, or these days, a physicalist, which also I most certainly am not
Hank