Posted on 02/04/2006 1:49:53 AM PST by mark_interrupted
Thank you for your gracious response. I am also an American, but I'm now living in Asia. I think the 19 Saudis insanely murdering 3000 Americans one day is what got us to this point. I also think if we Americans were anything like Mohammedans then everyone in the Islamic world would be dead right now due to our superior weapons. But we're not mass killers, so here we are trying to create democracy in undemocratic places. I don't know if it will work.
What a waste of ink. It could have been said in two letters....PC. Political Correctness insures all of us total defeat in anything we undertake.
Wasn't it Beloc in his book about Heresy who makes the point that the Muslims will start trying to take over the world again in the future? I think he wrote the book sometime in the 20s. So, that would make him pretty good at predicting...of course he was an historian. As we know, a good historian can read the future because he reads the past!
I'll tell you why.
Because they are crazy and got bigger balls than the rest of the civilized world and dont give a damn about life, theirs or others.
72 virgins is a powerful lure even for those who get their kicks on the backsides of little boys.
bttt
You're wrong.
Crazy Muslims have been beaten for centuries, with ever venture. Just because they have a lot of children, so that they can use them as walking/flying bombs, doesn't mean that they're going to win.
Yes, Hitler and the Nazis lost. We had to defeat their armies before we could occupy their lands and impose "our system" on them.
The Muslims are by-passing the "defeat the armies" step as they first "occupy" our countries and then allow our own laws to "defeat our armies". Think about it before making an emotional response.
Yeah, that makes for good conversation but reality it's not. We'll fall by the sword of Political Correctness before we fire a single nuclear weapon.
We have forgotten how we came into existence and what made us great.
This statement becomes more out-dated with each passing day.
Wasn't it Arnold Toynbee that civilizations are never defeated by external threats, but that they commit suicide?
Thanks for clearing that up.
Belloc was very perceptive. So was Chesterton.
...until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. - Winston Churchill.
Will the US be called upon again?
They are different sides of the same coin.
If the West has an unifying religions it has as one of its catechisms, self loathing.
.....There are many who think that the solution is to be found in winding back the clock. That's exactly what this article is getting at
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...these guys can win...the "secularists" can't ..
There have been attempts at renewals and modern day reformations, e.g. 'The Christian Reconstruction' movement, but they have been resisted by secularists and surprisingly, by evangelicals. Apparently because they would interfere with the "last days" rapture scenario and would promote Biblical law.
A famous radio Bible teacher, J. Vernon McGee, decades ago, famously said when asked why Christians didn't get involved in the political process...."why polish the brass on a sinking ship"?
...the late Francis Schaffer and Rousas J. Rushdoony are central figures in the genesis Christian Reconstruction Movement
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