I agree wholeheartedly with Jimmah up there, who stated:

Well said Kejda! As far as I can see, this mis-identification only serves anti-American propogandists whose aim is to portray the US as a Judeo-Christian mirror image of fundamentalist Islam. The more it is debunked the better.

PS. Like your blog, good work.

Just so. Not to mention a total intellectual embarrassment and as good a
bit of self refutation as I’ve seen in some time.

For someone to rant on at exhausting length about a philosophical crisis
in America while refusing to acknowledge the West’s philosophical tradition haven
taken root in Judeo-Christian soil is the epitome of foolishness.

You want to see the repudiation of Judeo-Christianity’s philosophical
underpinnings at work? Take a look at the cults of personality which have
arisen with increasing frequency in the West, the unquestioning devotion
to caesarism in all of its forms, left and right. It was the most religious
who were least receptive to Obama in the election, which ought to provoke
some thought at your end. The least religious went for him in droves.
But it’s the latter who must be extirpated from the coalition. Sure.

The founding fathers were certainly elitist in their refined philosophical inclinations and I am most grateful for it! Yes, the bulk of Americans were religious Brits with a beef with their king, but it was the classically liberal elitism applied to the political system which set the U.S.A apart from European countries, and from its formerly colonial political make-up.

Why is the U.S different, more specifically much better than Great Britain (then and today), France (then and today), Germany, Spain, Italy, etc? Most importantly, why was the U.S. a much better country after the revolution than its colonial roots were before under King James?

The religious make-up never changed. The political structure did. It is those elitist notions way ahead of their times, of negative rights and individual freedoms within a classically liberal frame, which hold the country together and make it the best country on Earth as far as I am concerned.

So are you arguing that religion is more important and beneficial than the Constitution to America’s culture?

Keep writing like this. It can help the real brainwashed which don’t have even a clue on what socialism is.

Ishte shume e mire. Nuk kam patur mundesi te komentoj me pare, por ndonese une nuk jam e informuar per detajet e politikes se brendshme ne SHBA, te cilat nuk me duket se jane te domosdoshme per te kuptuar dhe vlersuar vleresuar thelbin, mendimi i esese eshte shume i lexueshem per ata qe kane deshire dhe mendje per te lexuar. Mesazhi eshte shume i qarte:”Amerika duhet te mbetet Amerike, me ato parime me te cilat eshte themeluar dhe qe simbolizon per te gjithe”. Per fat te keq, kjo mund te behet shume e veshtire pasi ata pionieret e pare qe e themeluan vendin ne kete menyre ne nje terren te virgjer dhe me ushqyesin per to, nuk ekzistojne me dhe jane zevendesuar nga breza te tjere qe e marrin te mireqene gjithshka qe eshte arritur mbi bazen pikerisht te ketyre aprimeve, duke vene ne dyshim madje edhe vleren e vete parimeve. Nuk e di nese eshte ndopak ngushelluese qe Evropa po rishikon disi,dhe vend pas vendi pozicionet statiste te ngulura per shume kohe. Por nuk shpresoj qe do jete nje levizje aq rrenjesore. Thjesht diçka per te treguar reagimin e duhur ndaj asaj se sa pa sens dhe me pasoja mund te behen statizmat qe shkojne pertej te nevojshmes.

Meqenese esete kane lidhje logjike dhe botkuptimore me njera-tjetren pse nuk peprpiqesh t’i lidhesh bashke ne nej liber? Sigurisht mbas nje fare kohe, kur te kesh mjaft material dhe me teper kohe per te reflektuar dhe perpunuar?

L.

Thanks for your vote of confidence. Islamism is a very inferior enemy not worth being anxious/scared about for its own merits. The only reason it’s potentially dangerous and has already made many inroads, is because the West’s philosophical immune defenses are weak.

Why do we care to preserve who we are? Who are we anyway?

Young Westerners (European and American/Canadian/Australian) will not rile up for religious wars. If Judeo-Christianity is spoon-fed to them as their cultural holiest grail, they will just be demotivated and give in to apathy.

We must give the new generations new (or actually, old/classical but now unfortunately understated) ideas to believe in, and to get excited over fighting about. The old religions just won’t do.

Well said Kejda! As far as I can see, this mis-identification only serves anti-American propogandists whose aim is to portray the US as a Judeo-Christian mirror image of fundamentalist Islam. The more it is debunked the better.

Whassamattawityu?

That you’ve never studied the Jewish or Christian tradition is apparent.

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