The Singaporean diplomat and author, Kishore Mahbubani, has said that the greatest failing in modern Western thought is the lack of a basic common moral understanding. This great cultural divide will sap and divide the West in the years ahead. Mahbubani argues that as a result of the Western ethical decline, the West has developed structural faults in its …
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The Ruthless Strategy of Persecuting the Orthodox Church in Ukraine may Backfire
As the Ukrainian government is now engaged in a militant atheist Soviet Union type of manhunt and persecution against traditional Orthodox Christians who pledge loyalty to Ukraine, this may be a mistake that will impact the Russia-Ukraine war in unexpected ways. Persecuting the Orthodox Church in Ukraine: The forced politization of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine may easily …
Read More »Without Firing a Shot: How Islam Overcame the West
How Islam Overcame the West: In his well-known history of Western civilization, Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) offered an interesting “what if” scenario concerning the pivotal Battle of Tours (732 A.D.), when a massive Muslim army—which had terrorized, slaughtered, and enslaved every Christian on its path—was finally halted and defeated by the Franks in the middle of France. Had the Muslims actually won, Gibbon …
Read More »Atheist Science and Empiricism as Religious Belief
Hanne Herland counters those presenting empiricism as a ‘complete atheist religion’ in her weekly WND column. Atheist Science: Today many view “modern social science” and “empiricism” – the practice of basing theories on testing of data derived from human experiences – as if these are infallible, objective entities. People believe in the social sciences as though they were a …
Read More »We need empathy: What can motivate us to do good to others?
This has become the age of depression and loneliness. Social bonds are withering, the atheist way of life is popular, the culture of fear is rampant – everywhere. It seems as though the more you hail free sex, the lonelier people get. How can this be? More than 50 % of the American population now live alone, writes historian …
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 »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 »How the neo-Marxist movement is strangling America
Herland Report: The neo-Marxist movement: It is only recently that most people have come to understand how influenced American society has become by Marxist thought. Yet, this ideology has been preached for more than 50 years to American youth in schools and universities, demonizing classical, traditional values and substituting these with revolutionary, God hating ideals that have succeeded in destabilizing …
Read More »The Metaphysical World and its Relevance to our Existence
The belief that human life is subordinate to God, that we are responsible for our own actions and will be judged by the Creator, is simply an unbearable thought for the non-believer. In the film version of J. R. R. Tolkien’s trilogy, “The Lord of the Rings”, directed by Peter Jackson, two of the main characters have the following …
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