Posted on 04/12/2005 4:34:47 PM PDT by Lord Nelson
Finished reading this. I don't totally agree with him. He overplays the importance of culture and downplays the importance of ideology. For instance I feel Japan will take sides with the West before it ever would with China.
One point that got my attention was his suggestion that Latin America will move closer to North America both economically and diplomatically. I wonder if we will see new reconciliation between the Catholic and Protestant churches - realizing that our differences are miniscule and we need to get on the same page to resist the emergence of the Apostate Church.
There already appears some congruence - with Protestant and Catholic resistance to SSM, the murder of Shiavo, ect...
As for Protestant & Catholic reconciliation, I think that has all but happened in areas of culture & politics. Conservative Catholics and Protestants already have much more in common that their liberal, secular opponents. Theological differences, I'm afraid, will prevent a genuine re-convergence of the two branches of Christianity. But that's okay: the two sides agree on just about everything else, and are natural allies.
Congratulations. He is extremely boring. I prefer Bernard Lewis a lot better.
Europe is being overtaken by islam (TROP). That should be a major concern and unifying catalyst.
If in a few years Iraq has a functioning and legitimate government wouldn't that tend to disprove the theory?
Obviously there will always be small items such as infant baptism, ect, ect… No, I don’t see a unification, but that’s OK, and probably would be undesirable anyways. I have matured, as I use to have plenty of animosity towards Catholicism, but now realize there is bigger fish to fry – such as the non-Christian Christian organizations, that want to accommodate the way of the world. Catholics seem to share my insistence on not tolerating or making any concessions to the world on black and white issues. Killing babies for stem cells – no matter how many people will be healed by it – just does not wash for me.
He writes like a typical snotty University professor. I love CS Lewis, and I know he too was a University professor, but he wrote with tremendous humility and incredible insight to the nature of man – ie. Lewis observed the dangers of Post Modernism before it was named.
It would work towards disproving it, yes. I'm a skeptic however. I would have opted for partition - a Kurdish nation, ect ...
I wonder if he is related to Bernard Lewis.
Lewis had a brother? What did Bernard right?
I doubt it. Bernard Lewis is still alive. He is old but not as old as CS.
As somebody said politics is war by other means. This may force the various tribes to master politics between tribes not just within thier own tribe. I like the Kurds but if they get their own nation it will encompass parts of Turkey and Iran which is why it won't happen.
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