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Read More »Christianity, ethics and Habermas: Moral questions are rational questions of how to live the best possible life
Moral questions are rational questions that discuss how we are to live the best possible life. Christianity produced a distinct set of moral virtues that were the ideal standards for justice in traditional, historic Western nations. Christianity, ethics and Habermas: Since the atheist, relativist ideology took over the hegemony in the West, these ideals have been scrapped and substituted …
Read More »General William Booth, the Salvation Army and its Social Revolution
At the height of the British Empire, with its unparalleled wealth and international influence, the founder of the Salvation Army, General William Booth, wrote In darkest England and the way out (1890). General William Booth: At this time, the interiors of Africa were being penetrated by Western explorers, among them Henry Morton Stanley, who just returned from the Congo …
Read More »Atheism, Emptiness and Suicide: We have lost the Recipe for Inner Peace
Suicide is an epidemic in the West. Among Americans, the numbers are alarming, with suicide as the 10th leading cause of death. Between 1999-2016, the rate increased 30 %, writes Jesse Lee Peterson. Emptiness and Suicide: The reasons for suicide are many, but particularly white people kill themselves, according to studies. Between 2006 and 2016, the suicide rate for …
Read More »Auguste Comte and Modern Science: The denial of the Metaphysical Dimension
Today many views “modern science” and “empiricism” – the practice of basing theories on testing of data derived from human experiences – as if these are infallible entities. Yet, one hardly remembers that for example lobotomy – drilling holes into a patient’s skull – was considered “scientific” only a few years ago. Modern science is often much more influenced …
Read More »Science is politicized: Modern science is not objective
Because perception is inherently fallible, logic is duped by empirical evidence. Our five senses are notoriously weak and prone to error. Hundreds of optical illusions are readily available to prove the point. Every scientific error had the support of logic. In short, perception itself is woefully inadequate to assess reality, writes poet, playwriter and essayist, William Hamnet Wall, first …
Read More »Hedonism versus the tough love of Christianity
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 …
Read More »Secular Extremism: Liberals define secularism as atheism, says Mohammad Usman Rana
Herland Report TV (HTV): Historian Hanne Nabintu Herland sat down with Mohammad Usman Rana discussing secular extremism in Europe, authoritarian atheism and lack of respect for religious freedom. Watch it here! “Increasingly, we are seeing Liberals define secularism as atheism, and neutrality as godlessness,” says Dr. Mohammad Usman Rana, medical doctor, author and famous commentator in the media, in …
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 »The hatred of Religion: How did the Left come to hate their own culture and the values that made the West great?
Many wonder how the West came to denigrate religion as a source of morality. How the intellectual, neo-Marxist elites in the media, at the universities, among politicians came to perceive Christians as reactionary parts of an undesirable, hopelessly outdated past. How did the neo-Marxists come to hate their own culture so much and its religious foundations? Why the cultural …
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