"Today, the migrant has replaced the proletarian and the guerrilla warrior as the new hero of contemporary victimology."https://quillette.com/2019/09/14/europes-virtues-will-be-its-undoing/ …
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... "The more religious practice recedes, the more we abandon ourselves to a kind of goodwill that is as ardent as it is wrong-headed. Chesterton was right: 'This modern world is full of old Christian ideas gone mad.'"
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Replying to @Outsideness
Christianity was the Western civilization death-drive from the beggining. Modernity just made this obvious.
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Replying to @ai_capitalism @Outsideness
Amazing how the problems only appeared once Western civilisation ceased to be Christian, then.
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Replying to @Cererean @Outsideness
1. The whole moral core of the left (egalitarism, hatered towards rich, etc.) is Christian. 2. Most of these problems didn't appear nowadays. Ask grandpa Hobbes.
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You'll probably like this. Cuts to the chase in section 6. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-019-00094-4 …
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