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America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate.
In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which was -- ironically -- about the necessity for free speech and rational debate.
He came to argue that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. Our freedoms are built upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God’s image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring God’s world.
We can thank these values for the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity, peace, and artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens built America, ended slavery, defeated the Nazis and the Communists, lifted billions from poverty and gave billions spiritual purpose. Jerusalem and Athens were the foundations of the Magna Carta and the Treaty of Westphalia; they were the foundations of Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Civilizations that rejected Jerusalem and Athens have collapsed into dust. The USSR rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, substituting a new utopian vision of “social justice” – and they starved and slaughtered tens of millions of human beings. The Nazis rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and they shoved children into gas chambers. Venezuela rejects Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and citizens of their oil-rich nation have been reduced to eating dogs.
We are in the process of abandoning Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, favoring instead moral subjectivism and the rule of passion. And we are watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we can reject Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law and satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, or scientific materialism, or progressive politics, or authoritarian governance, or nationalistic solidarity.
We can’t.
The West is special, and in The Right Side of History, Ben Shapiro bravely explains that it’s because too many of us have lost sight of the moral purpose that drives us each to be better, or the sacred duty to work together for the greater good, or both. A stark warning, and a call to spiritual arms, this book may be the first step in getting our civilization back on track.
用戶評價
##非常精彩 捍衛西方文明的力作
評分毫無疑問那個萬惡的M帝站到瞭曆史的正確一側，那個厲害黨我就不想說什麼瞭………………
評分##對曆史的梳理挺清晰 ideology對科技進步的影響真大 什麼時候可以看看科技史。相信曆史是progressive的 存在一套真理需要人去探索大概是從雅典一直傳下來推動西方科技進步的一大動力
評分##啥啊 全沒聽進去
評分##思想是有生命的獨立存在，人隻是思想的土壤和傳播媒介。思想一旦産生，它就要傳播齣去，它就要長大，它就可能變成完全不是當初那個樣子。
評分##匆匆讀瞭開頭結尾，沒想到這書在豆瓣評分這麼高？？
評分##兩希文明塑造瞭西方，然後西方在曆史演進中拋棄瞭兩希文化。不感興趣那些，至少也讀讀現代國傢觀念怎麼來的吧。
評分##啥啊 全沒聽進去
評分##思想是有生命的獨立存在，人隻是思想的土壤和傳播媒介。思想一旦産生，它就要傳播齣去，它就要長大，它就可能變成完全不是當初那個樣子。
