What has the West (generally "white male", "racist",
"exploiter", "Christian") given the world?
Hospitals -- Because life is sacred.
Higher Eduation -- Taking the Greek model and combining it with New Testament
methodologies, we've learned more about our world than any other
generation. Thank Isaac Newton.
Rights -- Equality before God & Law. Lex Rex. Raising women to
ontological equality.
Chivalry -- Considering the other person as more important than myself.
Failures? Pleanty of them. They're not to be appreciated. While
comparison is not justification, it does show
progress. Significant progress.
But a return to paganism (the modern neo-pagan movement) will destroy
everything we have. Tolerance, that is, the "tolerance" movement,
is only for things other than the Christian ethic.
jmnsho,
Collin
>Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:43:32 EDT
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>We need to do to some of the "monuments" what the allies did to Nazi
>monuments, tear them down, especially the "Temples" where literally millions
>died just to salve some ritual or ego or worse, some "God."
>
>For me, though the Eiffel Tower is another erection due to vanity, I think
>maybe it, among a few others, the Statue of Liberty being one, represents art
>or philosophy more than vanity or cruelty or victory-etc.
>*Using my somewhat eclectic standards then, the Gateway Arch at St. Louis,
>another obscene monument to white vanity, would be torn down and a monument
>to the native peoples displaced (exterminated) by Europeans erected.
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