Jesus Wept - The West Part 2

The West (continued)

For many centuries the west led the world regarding the development of human rights (see Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me by Wilfred Reilly). Rights we take for granted are completely foreign to many societies and cultures.

Different religions (which have different values) lead to very different cultures and very different kinds of civilisations.

All cultures have some good things, and all cultures have some bad things. It's time we stopped judging different cultures by different standards. No culture, group, race, or society should be immune from criticism. If we exempt a culture from criticism, we may be turning a blind eye to some very destructive elements within that culture.

The west is hated by many, but the west's greatest enemy is the enemy within (see the Yuri Bezmenov video below).¹

Our universities are the primary targets of those who are hostile to the west and the values westerners hold.² What has been happening at Stanford (see below), has been happening at universities across the western world.

It's time for many western academics to admit that their hatred of Christianity has warped their view of the world,³ blinding them to many of the very real dangers in the world.

Marxists think communism is the answer, Jihadists think sharia is the answer. Marxists think violent revolution can be justified in order to bring in the communist state.

Jihadists are convinced that by engaging in violent jihad they are helping to make this world a better place. They honestly believe that we will thank them when our democracies have been destroyed, and we can see how good it is to live under sharia (though they are unable to point to a successful example, which is causing many to turn from Islam. See ‘Islam’s Crisis of Apostasy’ on The Middle East Forum).

Marxists and Jihadist are both motivated by their "righteous cause." They are on the side of right, and they are out to destroy those they regard as evil. This makes them natural allies when it comes to destroying democracies. But when a democracy is destroyed, the Marxists usually come off second best. (See Elica Le Bon’s interview about Iran on Triggernometry. A similar thing happened in Afghanistan. And it even happened recently to some leftists in the US, see 'Is Islam at War with the West? LIVE with Raymond Ibrahim' on Apologetics Roadshow.)

If enough westerners do not admit that in recent years we have been heading in the wrong direction, western civilisation will not survive (see The Third Choice by Mark Durie, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West by Raymond Ibrahim and Ibrahim’s videos 'The Fake History of Saladin', ‘So WHY Saladin?’, ‘Islam & the West: Real History vs Fake History').

If western leaders do not come to this realisation—and come to it soon—all will be lost (see Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Growing Threat of Radical Islam).

Western civilisation is not invincible.

It’s time we stopped the self-loathing and started judging all people and all cultures by the same standards. We are all victims, and we are all agents. We have all been marred by sin.

If western civilisation is destroyed, it will be destroyed because westerners did not find the courage to allow freedom of speech and stand up for the values they once held dear (see the video below, see also Konstantin Kisin's HILARIOUS and INSPIRATIONAL Speech at ARC).⁴

Will the west wake from its sleep? Or is it already too late? ⁵

So why did the West turn from the God of the Bible? There are many reasons. One of which is bad theology. The Church (without realising it) made God look like a monster. See "A Legacy of Fear and Persecution" in Thomas Talbott's book, The Inescapable Love of God. See also Is Hell Eternal? and What's Wrong with the Innocent Dying for the Guilty

1. Institutional capture of our universities is what the Marxists were aiming for. Most educators at our universities do not view themselves as Marxists, but they view the world through a Marxist lense. They divide the world into the oppressed and oppressors. There are a few problems with viewing the world this way. 1. It lacks explanatory power. It's too simple. The truth is we are all victims, and we are all agents. We've all been oppressed, and we are all oppressors. That's a more honest and complete view of the world, and it makes us a little bit gentler when dealing with those we regard as "sinners" (because we understand that we are sinners too). 2. Because they are so zealous to fix the world, they are often too quick to judge. Their view of the world stops them from judging fairly. They start applying different standards to different groups and different individuals. They overlook important events which warps their view of the world. 3. Because they fail to see that their own character is not just their problem, but part of the "worlds" problem, they often become oppressors in the name of defending the oppressed.

“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good. In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel. In the surfeit of power I was a murderer, and an oppressor. In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments. And it was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains … an unuprooted small corner of evil.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Those who are consumed with fixing everything except themselves are foolish, and often a danger to society. (They become the end justifies the means kind of people, and as such are capable of all kinds of evil all-the-while believing they are doing good.)

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C.S. Lewis

“Foolish is the man, and there are many such men, who would rid himself or his fellows of discomfort by setting the world right, by waging war on the evils around him, while he neglects that integral part of the world where lies his business, his first business—namely, his own character and conduct.” ~ George MacDonald, The Hope of the Gospel

Unfortunately, our educators have infected many of their students, turning them into crusaders. These crusaders—our future lawyers, teachers, journalists etc—have been infected with the Marxist view of the world. They think themselves on the side of right—blind to their own sins, and hateful towards those they regard as the oppressors—they are now on a mission to destroy those they believe to be the cause of all the evils of this world.

“There is a way that appears to be right,
but in the end it leads to death.” (Proverbs 16:25)

If we are to make this world a better place, first we must start by becoming better people. We must admit that we do not love some people as we ought, and start treating all people—even the oppressors—as we would like to be treated. (If we are serious about this, we will seek God's help. See "What is the Gospel?" below.)

2. "Qatar has pumped over six billion dollars into U.S. universities in the past decade." Qatar is two faced. What they produce through their Arabic arm of Al Jazeera is very different to what they produce for western audiences. See "AJ+ Is Al Jazeera | 5 Minute Video" by PragerU

3. Many academics have a deep hatred of the west—because they have a deep hatred of the free market. (Most academics know next to nothing about economics because they've never read a book on the subject. See Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell and Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States by Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, Dr. Brian Domitrovic, and Jeanne Sinquefield). Because they value their beliefs more than truth, they exaggerate, downplay, and strait out lie about many things in western and non-western history. Their hatred warps their view of the world. See Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me by Wilfred Reilly. (Two books which show just how twisted the hard left’s narrative is, are The Third Choice by Mark Durie and Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West. For a brief summary of where the west is heading if we continue on our present path see 'What Happened to Christianity in Europe? Ayaan Hirsi Ali Explains' on the YouTube channel Apologetics Roadshow).

Fortunately, some influential westerners are waking up. See the videos “Jordan Peterson - The Truth About the Muslim World” on Liberty Vault and "What Elon Musk Just Learned about Islam" on Apologetics Roadshow (there's also some really good advice in the latter for Protestants, Orthodox, and Catholics who seem to be fighting more and more among themselves).

4. The west is certainly in trouble. See “Ex-Marine: We Lost in Afghanistan and We're Losing at Home Too” on Triggernometry. See also "Lefties Gone Wild - The Crazy State of Australia’s University Sector" on THE OTHER SIDE.

5. “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom." ~ Benjamin Franklin

Western governments have been unwittingly undermining morality for many years now.

The more taxes, the more regulations, and the more government handouts you have, the more people will lie to avoid the taxes, get around the regulations, and get those handouts. This is just one of the many ways western societies are being destroyed by often well-meaning but misguided people. See Tensions.