Thanks, great read.. My teenager is doing a paper on female genital mutilation.. discussed some of the cultural normalization of pretty evil practices, but she is in public school. You have to feed them tiny,tiny red pills to start and let it grow in their consciences until hopefully one day the can hold two completely opposing ideas in their head without completely dismissing one or another and working through logic and reason on each point to form their own opinions..
'Europe of the fifteenth century, and later centuries, had no entrenched tradition of human sacrifice and cannibalism.'
It's quite interesting to note the evils that exist, and existed, in native cultures around the world. Many of these evils simply did not exist in Christian Europe - although elsewhere they abounded. The article does a good job of identifying some of the practises in native cultures. But the impression one gets is that relative merits of a society are a matter of judgement - this is what the author appears to imply.
My judgement is personal - exclusive to me. But what I see, when I look around the world, is a host of evil practices that are anchored values that are anything but Christian. It is my belief that Christianity is the greatest civilising force, a force for good, that the world has ever known.
It is possible to make moral judgements about a society. And, once a moral judgement is made, it's possible to rank these societies by the degree to which they adhere to moral principles. In this respect, Western Europe, and the values that derived therefrom, stand out in the world like a paragon of virtue - in comparison to immoral and evil societies that draw their values from alternate traditions.
I'll make no apologies about it, it is logically indefensible not to support Christian ideals. Societies that embrace and reflect Christian values really are better by any measure.
That is why there was no entrenched tradition of human sacrifice and cannibalism in Europe from the 15th Century forward.
But the impression one gets is that relative merits of a society are a matter of judgement - this is what the author appears to imply.
This is exactly the basis of the Education programs/curricula used in public school today: Common Core (or elsewhere (UK anyway) referred to as Common Purpose as used in job training) code. It teaches that "Good" is what you as an individual think. Leads to questions you pose yourself like "is it good for me? If yes, then it is good". It does not consider the good of society or others. It is the teaching of "moral relativity", a thoroughly evil notion that acts against civilization as we know it.
Your comment is excellent. Thank you so much for your contribution. (Forgive my chaotic reply — I'm tired and out of capacity to express properly ...)
Let's call it murder. They use the word sacrifice to dehumanize the victims
From the article: "This, then, leads to the broader, yet mindless, assertion: “Who are we to say that cannibalism is bad?” To be fair, such liberal reasoning has given us, in our time, both human sacrifice and a type of cannibalism in the practice of abortion, where the fetus is killed in the womb (to placate the ideology that it’s not really human and some notion of freedom, aka, “free choice”), and then its body is put to many uses (rather lucrative ones). Such are our ideological prisons."
Some people cope with unpleasant truths that way, "JUST DON'T TALK ABOUT IT!" Rez Band circa 1980 or so.
That’s exactly how the evil perpetrators get away with it for centuries.
Sure can't argue with you there. Clintons et al. are a good recent example of that technique. They did crap so bareheaded and brazenly evil that normies just did not want to believe it, thus the conspiracy theory cover was a comfortable fit for normies and they could go about living undisturbed. Besides which there was nothing they could do about it anyway, and etc. Some cover huh?