The Singaporean diplomat, Kishore Mahbubani has wisely said that the greatest failing in modern Western thought is the lack of a basic common moral understanding. It creates a cultural divide that will sap and divide the West in the years ahead. Failing modern Western thought: Mahbubani argues that as a result of the ethical decline, the West has developed …
Read More »The scientific cure for Depression: Prayer
The Cure for Depression: We live in a mainstream culture that almost completely denies the spiritual realm and its influence on human beings. You hardly hear anything positive about religious beliefs or traditional values, for that matter. Yet, the New Left total revolt against traditional values, implemented into our university structures, the publishing business and the media from the …
Read More »Protestantism and Martin Luther: The need for unification in a divided Church
Hanne Nabintu Herland sees ‘destructive side effect’ of 16th century Reformation: The early division between Catholics and Protestants began in 1517, when Martin Luther (1483-1546) started a popular uprising, delivering the 95 theses in Wittenberg, Germany. Protestantism and Martin Luther: He criticized the Catholic clergy for placing a monetary price on forgiveness and the path to heaven. Luther’s point was …
Read More »The search for meaning beyond Materialism
In the West, many now search for the meaning of life but fail to reach the inner awakening and peace the generations before us spoke of. We live in a culture where depression, loneliness, drugs and hedonism dominate. There is little or no reverence for the values that once made the West a strong civilization. The spiritual knowledge that …
Read More »Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened
The West has, in recent years, bestowed upon itself an immense weight of suffering from financial crisis, lack of ethics, health and a variety of political crisis. Traditional values, respect for the elderly, tradition, the family and faith has been scrapped from the public narrative. Front and center is the atheist materialist world view that deems the physical dimension …
Read More »The need for Metaphysical Reflection and Morality to foster Mental Health
Metaphysical Reflection and Morality: The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. We need to question more, to study ancient wisdom, to acquire knowledge about the key to happiness and how we may fulfil the purpose of life. Socrates believed that each man has access to the truths of life, as they are …
Read More »Denzel Washington philosophy of life: Top lessons learnt
In a time of growing turmoil and unrest, Denzel Washington’s philosophy of life and vivid message about the top lessons learned from his faith in God is well worth noting. As the New Left atheist movement has succeeded in tearing down the very fabric of unity and community in the West, with its hailing of free sex and drugs, the …
Read More »Christian Values formed Western Civilization: Equality, individualism, empathy, human dignity
In a world where the Western media chronically demonizes religion and Christian values, let us take a look at the essence of the true Christian principles. In essence, our most cherished Western values originate from the pool of Christian ideals. Christianity was central in creating Western civilization and Jesus born in Bethlehem established a system of values that …
Read More »Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the need for guiding Ethics: Morality is our following of a voice of nature within us
The French philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously stated that morality is our following of a voice of nature within us. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Ethics: This voice is often drowned out by passions or pride. Thus, the path to moral redemption becomes to turn back to the intimate moral contact with the heart. This same view penetrates several of the world …
Read More »How the Left redefine History: Voltaire, hailed as apostle of tolerance was not tolerant at all
The elites that controls the media, the universities, and the publishing houses write history. They retell how we are to understand the past, redefining perspectives. How the Left redefine history: Since the Marxist groups began dominating the narrative in the West, history has been rewritten to fit a specific agenda: To demonize traditional values, precisely the ideals that made the …
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