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  The German philosopher, Hannah Arendt is considered one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. She was a Holocaust survivor who spent many years questioning how it was possible for a modern, democratic state such as pre-World War II Germany, to turn into a totalitarian state and a brutal regime that killed millions of its own …

  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 …

  When Karl Marx called for cancelling God and the abolition of eternal truths such as justice, religion, and morality, he legalized contempt for the traditional moral standards of “do not lie, do not kill, do not envy others what they have”. The evil in man’s nature was no longer restrained, and the knowledge of how to tame it removed …

  The atheist narrative has in the past century engulfed the West with its denial of the metaphysical realm. History has been rewritten to fit this Marxist and socialist ideology. The idea that religion and scientific rationalism are opposing world views is one of the atheist distortions of reality that have been pushed on the public. One seeks to hide …

  The term “Western values” is often used when describing historical ideals and cultural traditions that are perceived to be vital in defining the European civilization. If you pay attention to the way the term is currently used, it is easy to assume that modern Western values were invented in the Enlightenment period – the 1600s – with its emphasis …

  The murder of the Russian journalist, Darya Dugina has brought international attention to her influential father, the Russian philosopher, Alexander Dugin. As the car bomb that killed her apparently was meant for her father, many read up on who Alexander Dugin is. Why is he considered so dangerous in the West and hailed as such a hero in the …

  The term “secular” has been completely redefined by the New Left Western atheists. Secularism was invented in the 1600s as a guarantee that all faiths would be respected. Secularism was never defined as atheism or godlessness, but rather the very opposite. To be secular meant to respect religious freedoms for all. Today secularism is often understood as a political …

In a time of upheaval and radically changing values in the West, it is important to reflect on the world view that shaped the West and historically created a strong civilization. The origins of traditional Western values are mainly found in the Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian heritage. The radical Hebrew–Christian contribution to the concept of Western values differed from both …

  Former Pope Benedict XVI often pointed out that the secular focus on scientific and technological progress alone has created a moral vacuum in the West. The Declining West: It has produced an atheist culture that suffers from a lack of moral energy and compassion. He deemed the lack of traditional moral standards to be the greatest threat to contemporary …

  As technocracy and transhumanism have risen to the fore, they have brought with them their own form of science — “scientism” — which is basically the religion of science. In other words, it’s a belief even in the absence of evidence, or in the face of contrary evidence, and this is a very serious problem. The clearest problem with …