I can hear my pastor telling me now that belief in Christ is not utilitarian. While I agree, certainly defending the West and Western Civilization requires that we also defend Christianity. And it is a truism that There Is No Western Civilization Without Christianity. Laura Hollis has the story at Townhall.com today. I think it is not required that everyone believe or believe fully. But Christianity must be the dominant religion as the institution that sustains Western culture. Oh, we can tolerate a few Hindus, Sekhs, Buddhists, and a couple of Confucianists. Muslims, on the other hand are our sworn enemies, by their own words. We did not start the war on Muslims, they started the war on us. As I have pointed out in their current war with the Jews, all they need to do to have peace is surrender.
Somewhere along the way, Western governments decided to experiment with "multicultural" societies. None of this was debated. No one ever voted for this. And in the case of the United States, it has been bipartisan. George Bush let in Muslims. Biden has welcomed the whole damn world. The multiculturalist insist that no culture is good or bad, no better or worse than ours. I don't intend to contest that argument here, though it sounds specious on its face. Instead, I want to point out that as a practical matter, a given nation must have a single dominant culture or governing it is total chaos. One cannot have one set of laws for one group, and another for another group.
For a look at what may be in our future:
For the past two weeks, the news has been filled with stories and videos of riots across Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The unrest is in response to the murders of three little girls who were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift dance party in Southport, England, on July 29. The accused is a young man whose family emigrated to the U.K. from Rwanda. Although the suspect is a British citizen, Britons took to the streets in angry and violent protests about the massive amount of immigration successive governments have allowed to take place.
Newly elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the protests "far-right thuggery," and virtually every single media outlet has smeared all protesters as "far-right" bigots and racists. This ignores legitimate concerns of the native British population. Ever-larger percentages of Great Britain's residents are not native-born. Forty percent of London's population was not born in Great Britain, and 54% have parents who were born elsewhere. Sixty-three percent of immigrants to Great Britain now come from non-EU countries, and many arrive from countries with religious beliefs and cultural practices that are not only different from those of Great Britain but actively hostile to them.
In a Nov. 2023 interview with former Australian Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, bestselling author Douglas Murray decried the West's absurd hostility to its own history and culture. He cited the recent election of former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf as an example:
"[Yousaf] had himself photographed on his first day in office with a group of other Muslims doing the Islamic prayers in the first minister's office, bending to Mecca. If Kate Forbes (Yousaf's opponent) had become leader and promptly posted a photograph of her and some others taking Holy Communion, I think there would have been an uproar. So why would that have been the case, but no uproar for Humza Yousaf doing the Islamic prayer in the office? Because we want everybody to have religious freedom except ourselves. We want to praise every tradition apart from our own. And we want to promote every belief system other than the one that got us here. That is madness."
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The West is being overrun because it has grown soft and complacent, disdainful of religion (at least, of Judeo-Christianity), arrogant and egotistical in its belief that either there is no God, or that man's reason -- often phrased as "science" -- should supplant faith. In fact, it's a relatively modern notion that science and religious faith are at odds; both Judaism and Christianity (as well as other religious traditions) have produced some of the greatest scientists in human history.
More to the point, however, the nihilistic absurdities we have witnessed in just the past few years demonstrate that there is neither science nor rationality separate and apart from God. Science, properly done, is supposed to be about the pursuit of truth. But without God as the ultimate source of truth, men soon come to believe that the truth is whatever they say it is, then demand that others agree.
Hollis makes some excellent points above. Science, properly understood is the search for the truth about our material world. It holds no meaning for the spiritual world. And that search can only proceed on the assumption that it is possible to find such truths. And that is based on the assumption that our Creator is a rational God. If our creator was one of the pagan gods, who were capricious and anything but rational, there would be no point. And that is why "science" as it is, or at least was, understood was a uniquely Christian undertaking. In the absence of Christianity, men define their own "truths" and we wind up with absurdities such as men can become women and vice versa, and men can bear children. It is all a lie and utter madness!
What happens when men begin to believe their own bullsh*t, and when they place themselves on God's throne?
Thus were we told demonstrably, scientifically false statements about COVID-19 and ordered to believe them: about the origins of the virus, the necessity of masking, social distancing and lockdowns, the efficacy of ivermectin and other drugs, and the safety of mRNA "vaccines." Thus, too, are we continually told demonstrably, scientifically false statements as part of the current transgender activism and ordered to believe them: that men can become women, and women can become men, with chemical and surgical interventions, and that young children have the maturity to understand and consent to medical alteration of their bodies that leaves them scarred and often infertile.
Because so many Westerners think themselves "above" nonsense like religion, they pay insufficient attention to those whose religious and political beliefs are about conquest, destruction, enslavement and murder. They casually and happily promote ideologies and policies that undermine the family, threaten the safety of children, attack masculinity, collapse the educational system and weaken society. By way of example, none of the West's enemies will care about our armed forces' alleged "inclusiveness," the number of transgender officers, or the widespread use of sexually confused pronouns, except to see them as further proof of weakness to be exploited.
They also begin to believe that the killing of children in the womb is allowed, even moral. They justify this because some of these mothers are poor, and after all, who wants to be raised in a poor household. Or some of them may be addicted from birth because they mother used drugs, or their "quality of life" might not be as great as one might wish. Again, they place themselves on God's throne using false compassion. What would the people saved by surgeon Ben Carson have done had his mother thought this way?
I urge gentle readers to read all of Hollis's article today. Multiculturalism is a deadly philosophy proposed by so-called "academics" who have too much time, and too little wisdom. It does not and cannot work in the real world. It is time we woke up to this fact.
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