How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss

How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss
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Publisher : Ignatius Press
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9781642291599
ISBN-13 : 1642291595
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Book Synopsis How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss by : Peter Kreeft

Download or read book How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Peter Kreeft presents a series of brilliant essays about many of the issues that increasingly divide our Western civilization and culture. He states that "these essays are not new proposals or solutions to today's problems. They are old. They have been tried, and have worked. They have made people happy and good. That is what makes them so radical and so unusual today. The most uncommon thing today is common sense." Kreeft says that one thing we can all do to help save our culture is to gather wisdom as data to preserve and remember, like the monks in the Dark Ages. Data is important and necessary; they are the premises for our conclusions. He presents relevant, philosophical data that can guide us, divided into 7 categories: epistemological, theological, metaphysical, anthropological, ethical, political, and historical. He then explores these categories with classic Kreeft insights, presenting 40 pithy points on how we can implement the data from these categories to help save civilization – and more importantly, save souls. He emphasizes the single most necessary thing we can do to save our civilization is to have children. If you don't have children your civilization will cease to exist. Before you can be good or evil, you must exist. Having children is heroic because it demands sacrificial love and commitment. Cherishing children is the single most generous and unselfish act that a society can perform for itself. He discusses the "unmentionable elephant in the room". It's sex. Religious liberty is being attacked in the name of "sexual liberty". Our culture war today is fundamentally about abortion, and abortion is about sex. Today we hear astonishing, selfish reasons people give to justify not having children, or killing children through abortion. So let's fight our culture war, which is truly a holy war, with joy and confidence. And with the one weapon that will infallibly win the future: children.


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