![]() ![]() ![]() In France, by contrast, anti-clericalism morphed into fundamental hostility to Christianity and to religion itself. In England and Scotland, the Enlightenment developed reason and political liberty within the framework of Biblical belief. However, this animus against religion has far deeper roots and can be traced back to what is considered the birthplace of Western reason, the 18th-century Enlightenment.Īctually, it goes back specifically to the French Enlightenment. Some of this hostility is being driven by the perceived threat from Islamic terrorism and the Islamisation of Western culture. Religion is said to be their antithesis, the source instead of superstitious mumbo-jumbo, oppression and backward-thinking. These are said to be essential for progress, a civilised society and the betterment of humanity. We are living in an era which extols reason, science and human rights. My argument is a development of ideas I first explored in my 2012 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power. The only way to defend Western civilisation is to reaffirm and restore its Biblical foundations. ![]() By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit. War is being waged against Western culture from within which is in essence a war against Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible. As for the scientific revolution that developed within Western culture (albeit with much borrowed from outside Europe), math doesn’t care what color someone is. Later philosophical developments in Europe, such as the philosophies of the Enlightenment, likewise tend to be too universal for white supremacists seeking a tribal identity. It is either too universal (addressing the human condition in general) or too local-none of us live as citizens of an ancient Greek polis. Greek philosophy is likewise ill-suited to serve as a basis for white identity. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. The tensions, agreements, developments and settlements between these have shaped the Western world, and these roots of Western civilization are not congenial to white supremacy.Ĭhristianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. Christian religion and Greek philosophy, filtered through Roman law and culture, are the foundation of European culture. It is Jerusalem and Athens, in one famous formulation. The unifying heritage of Europe is religious and philosophical. Still, is there something to it? Is there a common heritage that will cover El Greco and Hume and Dostoyevsky? Is there one that can include the Jacobites and the Jacobins? There is, but it is not racial, and white supremacists reject it because it rejects them. There’s No Common Cultural Legacy For The Alt-Right At the rally, a Bernie supporter crossed from the Bernie rally over to the counter-rally for Trump and Pence, and he was the individual who held up the swastika in the now-viral image. Andy Ngo posted a video on Saturday showing clips from the Boise, Idaho rally, which occurred on February 29. They all stood behind him of course, showing their true selves /BrFSvDiF82īut even that wasn’t the accurate story. Not one trumpster confronted him on his racism. They were profane, disrespectful & crowded behind a nazi flag. Today I witnessed a bunch of trump supporters crashing a peaceful rally I was attending with my family. The Twitter user who first posted it described it as being held up by a Trump supporter who was there for a counter-rally against the Bernie rally. Snopes caught onto that, and points out that the image was originally posted from a Bernie Sanders rally in Boise, Idaho, six weeks earlier. The first protest occurred in Lansing on April 15 and succeeded in bringing a mass of vehicular traffic clogging the roads around the state capitol building, and a large demonstration on foot on the capitol grounds.īut the swastika banner depicted as being in Lansing wasn’t there that day. “Operation Gridlock” is the organizing name for demonstrations being mounted across the country to protest the economic shutdowns intended to deter the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. There, in a nutshell, are the first two problems. But it was possible for social media to make it look as if he was. To generate two of the problems, the Bernie supporter who actually displayed a swastika banner didn’t have to be present at the Operation Gridlock protest in Lansing, Michigan on April 15, 2020. ![]() pols decry swastikas at ‘Operation Gridlock’ protest just THREE problems The media loves this kind of crap, they spread it then play dumb…ĭem. ![]()
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