It was white men christianity that brought the world out of the misery of the stone age.. they are the inventors.. are the predictors are th prophets and they will always control the earth because of that highest logic
While I do not totally agree nor disagree with all you have said here... I would say there has historically been competition in the areas of logic and invention. As an example, Arabic numerals are much better than Roman, the Chinese invented the printing press and gun powder way before the West. Like Rome they ceased to innovate, they stopped, started looking more inward as if they had all the solutions and did not have to continue to develop culturally and technologically.
Rome was beset by Invasions/migrations by Barbarian tribes, something we should be conscious of today. Overtaxing, overspending and government corruption from within led to many economic problems just as they were being attacked from outside, their once strong military had grown weak due to an inability to attract qualified Romans thus required enlisting outsiders to do much of their soldiering... of course leading to the training of those that would take them down...they had also lost many of their traditional values, values that had made them strong and the envy of the world. Another thing of which we need be very conscious.
Lastly, they split in two, something that you are promulgating in effect. The Eastern portion lasted longer and that is something to consider. I, too, am fed up with the liberalism that I see taking us away from our own traditional values, diluting the American spirit and strength, allowing everything and no longer standing for much of anything. In my lifetime I have seen us at our greatest strength and now see how quickly our true existence can be threatened from those from outside as well as from within. Some of this grievous wounding of the American spirit comes from well intention-ed but severely naive folk, some of it is downright agenda driven and insidious. The cultural termites have been at this for at least a hundred years...
So, if it actually does come down to secession, and I, too, have considered fairly deeply and think secession not a particularly bad thing at all, I advocate the Gandhi and Dr. MLKing, jr method, non violent passive resistance and just plain civil disobedience. Just
en masse refuse to obey federal dicatates, especially the more offensive and stupid ones, not pay federal taxes, etc...There is no use in bloodshed, proven by a lost Civil War and by a won Civil Rights Movement. I agree much of the South retains a reverence for our heritage and the true Constitution, so if it comes, and it just may if we want to keep the culture, I hope we do it smart.
Having been in the belly, one of them anyhow, of the beast being a Conservative in the public education realm, I have discussed/debated there, here and elsewhere with liberals and its often like we live on different planets, almost a men are from Mars women are from Venus kind of thing... there is so little overlap where we actually agree oftentimes, even if we see the same things as being a problem of sorts. Some of these arguments are just unsolvable... and perhaps it best we have a peaceful divorce.
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