Cultural Analysis

  The Viking warrior king of Norway, Harald Hardrada (1015 – 1066) commander in Constantinople, lived a spectacular life.  The Viking age in Scandinavia (750 to 1050 AD) fostered a warrior and tradesman culture in Europe that led to a massive expansion, even to America and into Iraq. The Vikings populated Normandy in France and their descendants conquered England in …

  The Viking culture is spectacular in its remarkable shift from Norse religion to embracing Christianity, as their famous kings set out to Christen Scandinavia and abolished the Viking customs of keeping slaves, leaving babies out for the wolves to kill, human sacrifices and much more. This shift is explored in the Herland Report articles about this topic. The Viking …

  The old Viking culture was famously expanding from the time period of 750 till 1100 AD. As tradesmen, warriors and farmers, they became known all across Europe as fierce men and women who were greatly feared. The Viking cradle of Odin: The Viking culture is spectacular in its remarkable shift from Norse religion to embracing Christianity, as their famous …

  The legacy of the Judeo-Christian ethics of tough love is the only set of values in the West that have been able to unite us. We have not developed any other ethics that have been able to sustain core stability. These several thousand years old tough love rules establish clear boundaries between right and wrong, good and evil, justice …

  One of the best-known sociologists and intellectuals in the world, Peter L. Berger (1929-2017) strongly believed that the cultural trend of modernity would cause religion to decline. Then he had a mid-career transformation and dramatically changed his view. Berger admitted that he was wrong when assuming that a modern society automatically would lead to religious alienation. Atheists renounce atheism: …

  The UK Telegraph reported “Joe Biden’s America is splitting at the seams.”  The article reported results of a new survey of Americans undertaken by the National Opinion Research Center and the Wall Street Journal.  The survey finds startling declines in Americans faith in America, their communities, religion, and a sharp drop in patriotism.   The American collapse of traditional values: Americans …

  I think it was white liberals who deracinated the white ethnicities and destroyed Western civilization.  I think civilization was destroyed because liberals based their demands for reforms on denunciation of existing society.  Decades of denunciation undermined confidence. I once offered this explanation: The liberals’ stress on social purification flows from an inconsistency in the intellectual foundation of Western civilization, writes Dr. …

  Leading atheist intellectuals who have spent a lifetime ridiculing the Christian fundament of their own Western civilization now suddenly have a change of heart. One by one, they either become Christians, profess to be on Team Christianity, hail the traditional Christian culture or voice the need for more Christian ethics. They have found out that the logic solution to …

  In the 1800s, empiricism became a popular way of examining the world, according to the observable by the human eye. Auguste Comte declared that the only matter we may know as “facts” are those derived from human experience. It was a good method in natural science, mathematics and within other disciplines. Yet, when applied to philosophy and religion – …

  In the famous German philosopher, Hannah Arendt ground-breaking book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, she analyzed the 20th century growth of atheist totalitarianism that led to Holocaust and the concentration camps of the Gulag in Russia. In the attempt to understand how the rise of totalitarianism was possible in Germany and Russia, she seeks to understand the power structures that …