16-17 November 2006

I have been reading a large excerpt, reprinted in a e-newsletter from the American Congress for Truth, out of Virginia Beach, Virginia, of Mark Steyn's America Alone. This book has been at the top of the Amazon and New York Times best-seller lists for several weeks now, and for good reason. As truly as any book has, what I've read of it seems to grip me with the fact that the United States is truly going to have to stand as the sole leader of resistance against the growing monster of Islamism. We definitely do NOT get it; our pathetic attempts to fashion a secular-leftist political and social system for the USA and the West and pass it off as a value system that should inspire the world to emulation is going to get nowhere in the face of Global Jihad. There has been a misconception of what is appropriate for a social ethic for the world to follow on the part of many people, including many of those with whom I am closely associated. Many of them believe that multiculturalism, the notion that no one civilization or culture has any superiority in any way over another, and that there should not be a common set of values which can be embraced by all peoples in every nation, is somehow a value of true spirituality. In a word, they believe that it is Christian.

I, however, after carefully considering, for several years, the possibility that there can be a marriage of the two systems of life referred to above, I have come to the conclusion in recent weeks that such a marriage is nothing more than a sham, in fact, a predatory relationship in which multiculturalism becomes the evil witch maven who emasculates her husband (symbolizing Christianity), and ultimately will, in the night, castrate and then murder him. I have come to the conclusion that there is a profound difference between a faith-based view of life that embraces the best universal impulses of every nation and ethnicity, each one bringing their own cultural flavor to express it, and a faith that allows itself to be reshaped and distorted to fit the preferences and desires of every culture, to the point that it has nothing to say to a society's sins and injustices. It then is stripped, sterilized, and ultimately, faith in general and Christianity in particular will perish.

The fact is that multiculturalized Christianity is not an authentic faith at all, but just another expression of its hosting culture. And in modern, or shall I say post-modern culture in the West, multiculturalism, in whatever form, is just another way of saying that we who have enjoyed all that this civilization has provided for us have really nothing to be proud of, nothing really to offer that should be emulated by the rest of the world. And Christianity is therefore expected to be a never-offending, always affirming, ever including faith. And that notion takes the heart and guts out of it.

More later.