Why It’s Preposterous To Say Western Civilization Is About ‘Whiteness’

1. And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy: Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fullness should dwell; And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.
2. The Incarnation allows the church, the representative of the City of God on earth, as Cardinal John Henry Newman put it, “to gather His Saints.” Christian loyalty, then, can be to no nation primarily, but to the universal, Christian church, no matter how divided its body might be.
3. There are, of course, relatively simple ways to blow this objection to western civilization as “white civilization” to smithereens, but few are willing to accept the corrective, preferring the easy lie to the more complex truth.
4. For, as Leonidas and his 300 Spartans sacrificed their lives, attempting to hold the pass at Thermopylae against the horde of Persian invaders, Athens had time to prepare a defense.
5. American Progressives, in particular, where willing to sacrifice almost everything—including social stability, individual dignity, and the truth—to make American culture lily white, to “yank the hyphen out of hyphenated Americans,” and to “cleanse” the American population through eugenics, birth control, and abortion.
6. In direct contrast, the real West began, intellectually, with a desire to find unity in all things, despite the particular manifestations of a thing.
7. There are, of course, relatively simple ways to blow this objection to western civilization as ‘white civilization’ to smithereens, but many prefer the easy lie to the more complex truth.
8. The second founding of the West came a full 30 years after Heraclitus described the Logos, in 480s, when the Spartans resisted Persian (Oriental) tyranny.
9. Augustine of Hippo, arguably one of the two or three greatest citizens of western civilization, to realize how absurd the whole “whiteness” or “white supremacy” argument is.
10. The next time someone tells you that the West is about whiteness or racial superiority, remind them of several things: 1) that race is a modern construct, the fruits of progressivism; 2) that one of the greatest Westerners, St.
11. In terms of thought, the West began with a group of men—soon to be labeled philosophers, lovers of wisdom—in and near the Aegean town of Miletus, the point of intersection between the Occident and the Orient.
12. Here they defended themselves to the last, such as still had swords using them, and the other resisting with their hands and teeth; till the barbarians, who in part had pulled down the wall and attacked them in front, in part had gone round and now encircled them upon every side, overwhelmed and buried the remnant which was left beneath showers of missiles.

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