For 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has been the premier civilizing force in the world. Even those who today scoff at the Church depend on the values it pushed into society. Respect for women and rejection of slavery were both possible due to the rise of Christianity. The whole-scale rejection of casual violence is thanks… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 66
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Dec 2021. Principles vs Money
What is it with our sportsmen nowadays, oh, perhaps I should say sportspersons. You get the footballers taking the knee in support of Black Lives Matter, a racist organisation if every there was one. But they same footballers will jump at the chance to attend the Qatar World Cup next summer. Qatar has the worst… Continue reading Dec 2021. Principles vs Money
Western Culture under Attack Part 65
For activists, the purpose of literature and art should be to convey positive messages and correct the social imbalances. For example, in a paper published in the January 2021 issue of the School Library Journal, Amanda MacGregor, a Minnesota-based librarian, bookseller and freelance journalist, affirms that “Shakespeare’s works are full of problematic, outdated ideas, with… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 65
Western Culture under Attack Part 64
Based on the awareness of the unresolved, very real, social and racial injustices, discrimination and violence suffered by minorities in the Western world, this new self-righteous culture, referred to as Woke or Cancel Culture, promotes a moral imperative to fight against them, by all means. Diversity is reduced to skin colour, religion, gender or sexual… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 64
Western Culture under Attack Part 63
For many years in the United States, then Canada, the United Kingdom and now in the rest of Europe, censorship, ostracism, anathemas, threats, destruction or vandalism of works of art, attempts at linguistic and historical revision, and media lynching campaigns on social networks have been spreading, carried out by activists or associations of gender or… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 63
Western Culture Under Attack Part 62
A former Prime Minister of Australia and member of the Ramsay Foundation Board, Tony Abbott criticised modern university education, saying that he believed that “every element of the curriculum … pervaded by Asian, Indigenous and sustainability perspectives. Almost entirely absent from the contemporary educational mind-set was any sense that cultures might not all be equal… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 62
Western Culture Under Attack Part 61
When the founder of Ramsay Health Care passed away in 2014 and bequeathed more than three billion dollars so that Western civilisation could be studies in Australian Universities, who would have guessed that the money would lie idle because those same halls of academia would see such studies as a threat. The vice-chancellor of the… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 61
Western Culture Under Attack Part 60
Some say that such madness emanates from the modern Left and post-modernist thought. Certainly the modern Left have been under the guidance of loopy beliefs including, as Sheridan points out, ‘the dogma that children are not harmed by divorce, that pornography does not lead to sexual crime, that violence on film and television and social… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 60
Western Culture Under Attack Part 59
Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor for Weekend Australian, reported that “at Oxford University last year, the student body at Balliol College banned the Christian Union from participating in the ‘freshers’ fair’ because this might threaten intimidate or ‘harm’ students, because Christianity is associated with Western Civilisation, and Western Civilisation is synonymous with Genocide, Rape, Torture etc.’… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 59
Western Culture Under Attack Part 58
Make no mistake, Western culture, our culture, is under attack. This fact has been noted and discussed by commentators across many media outlets, however these discussions appear to have not been taken seriously. Perhaps because such a thing is beyond belief, perhaps because there is no one enemy of Western culture. Perhaps it is because… Continue reading Western Culture Under Attack Part 58