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The World Turned Upside Down - The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power (Paperback)
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The World Turned Upside Down - The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power (Paperback)
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As the West turns on its religious and cultural traditions, it is
succumbing to the 'soft totalitarianism' of irrational, relativist
ideals. With the Islamists intent on returning the free world to
the 7th century, it seems western civilization is no longer willing
or able to defend modernity and rationalism. In "The World Turned
Upside Down", Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of
this explosion of human irrationality is the slow but steady
marginalisation of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and
reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was
Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us
our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which
science and modernity are based. Without its religious traditions,
the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies,
right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down.
Scientists skeptical of global warming are hounded from their
posts, Israel is demonised, and the US is vilified over the war on
terror - all on the basis of blatant falsehoods and obscene
propaganda. Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of
rationality leaves the West vulnerable to its legitimate threats.
Faced with the very real challenges of spiraling demographics and
violent, confrontational Islamism, the West is no longer willing or
able to defend the modernity and rationalism that it once brought
into being.
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