“Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought. If [Europeans]…had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at this moment be Mohammedan and the Christian religion would be exterminated.” — Theodore Roosevelt I came across Roosevelt’s observation in Raymond Ibrahim’s recent book, Defenders of the …
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The Violent Defenders of the West by Raymond Ibrahim: Which values are we really fighting for?
The Defenders of the West: Which values are we really fighting for? The historical virtues that once built a world-leading Western civilization or the atheist hedonist relativism that permeates Western thinking today? Which of these values hold the moral high ground? “He who occupies the high ground…will fight to advantage,” wrote the Chinese military strategist and mastermind, Sun Tzu …
Read More »The path to a meaningful life: Listen to the voice of the heart
The French philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously stated that morality is our following the voice of nature within us. A meaningful life: This inner voice is often drowned out by the passions, our pride or other destructive forces of egoism and evil that lurk in the darkness of this world. If we choose to quench this voice of nature that …
Read More »The Marxist ‘Cancel culture’ created a communist holocaust in Russia – WND
Herland Report: As the United States now openly embraces the Marxist Cancel Culture with its fervent hatred of traditional values and Conservatism, it looks as though Soviet totalitarianism is likely to get its replay in the former “land of the free”. One of the most famous dissidents who experienced the depth of the atheist Soviet repression is Russia’s novelist and …
Read More »Remembering Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Soviet Atheist Repression now engulfs the West
As totalitarianism and a remarkable intolerance of diversity of opinion is implemented in the United States, the memories of the repressive atheist Soviet system and its Gulag prisons are worth revisiting. The Christian thinker, novelist and Nobel Prize laureate 1970, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn spoke vividly about the results of the atheist experiment in the Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn is referred to …
Read More »The Christian contributions to Western culture: Equality, human dignity, rationality
Herland Report: Christmas and the baby born in Bethlehem who grew to become to world’s most famous person, is often a great reminder of the values that Jesus, the son of Mary, brought into Western culture. So, what are the historical Western values that stem from the Judeo-Christian heritage? The term “Western values” is often used when describing historical …
Read More »Karl Marx’ socialist hatred of Western society and desire to destroy eternal truths such as freedom, justice
At the heart of Karl Marx’ socialist ideology was the profound hatred of the Western order and civil rights. His aim was to destroy our culture as we know it, as described in The Communist Manifesto: “There are .. eternal truths such as freedom, justice .. that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes eternal truths, …
Read More »The NAZI National Socialism in Germany World War II implemented Socialist State Control merged with Corporate Power
National Socialism, the official term for Nazism was a socialist state control system, writes World Net Daily (WND) columnist, historian Hanne Nabintu Herland in her book New Left Tyranny. It explains how the neo-Marxists are in the process of destroying the West. Read WND is America’s largest Conservative network with columnists such as Larry Elder, Ann Coulter, John Whitehead, Joseph Farah, …
Read More »The American Sodom and Gomorrah
Among the founding values of Christianity is the requirement to love one another and equality regardless of class, creed and gender. Yet, today Christian values are scorned as neo-Marxism and its rampaging revolt against our traditions has produced a remarkable period of cultural decay. The dominant values are now the very opposite of those suggested by Reverend Martin Luther …
Read More »The Christian preacher Martin Luther King Jr. on values, respect and just laws
In times of massive political upheaval such as what we are now witnessing, America’s Christian preacher and martyr, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is worth remembering. He discusses in his “Letter from The Birmingham Jail“, the question of how unjust laws produce unjust societies. The question becomes: To what degree are new laws introduced in order to subdue citizens, …
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