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CLASSIC LIBERALISM RESPECTS THE WORD OF GOD

Eric Martindale • Dec 16, 2018

More than a few readers have misunderstood this blog and website as being an attack on liberalism. It has become important to distinguish the critical difference between classic liberalism and the modern Far Left. First, watch this astounding and eye-opening Prager University Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlIjMJBSnRE on this subject. He totally nails it. This blog post takes Dennis Prager’s arguments to the next step, and applies it to Christianity and Christian contributions to social justice. Prager is Jewish, so he simply might not be thinking in this direction, but it’s clearly an extension of his arguments. Let’s give him the benefit of doubt.

Classic liberalism is not objectionable at all. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, respect for education, and the full equality of minorities and women (without any radicalism or socialism) are all classic liberal views. Most are positions clearly articulated in the founding documents of our Republic. Some are in the Declaration of Independence, some are in the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights, and yes others were added later. When I criticize “intellectualism”, as I did on a prior blog, I am not talking about classic liberalism, or any thought process leading to it.

It’s fair to argue that those people who are constitutionalists or conservative should support all of these “liberal” positions. If you are proud of America and if you are conservative about the U.S. Constitution and what this country stands for, these positions of classic liberalism are a good part of what America stands for.

Those who are classic liberals not only support these views and positions, they respect and admire the United States as the nation that puts forth this worldview and advances it globally. The classic liberal respects the English language works of literature such as Shakespear. They admire and advance the notion that Western Civilization, and the United States in particular, is the guiding light of humanity and the wellspring of progress for the world. The classic liberal knows that America was the impetus for democracies to replace monarchies, and prevented horrendous forces from winning the Second World War and the Cold War. Both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union would have destroyed Western Civilization and set back humanity. The true liberal has zero desire for historical revisionism because such rewriting will undermine the very “liberal” progress that they believe should be continued. A great many veterans of World War II, what historians called “the greatest generation” were solid supporters of FDR and the New Deal.

Classic liberals either actively support the Christian Left, or have a healthy respect for Christian teachings, even by those liberals who are agnostic or atheist. This differs greatly from the modern Far Left.
It is abundantly clear that the Teachings of Jesus promote helping the poor, and admonishing greed. Jesus had a general contempt for tax collectors, which at the time meant collecting money from the poor to give to the Caesars and kings, who spent it almost entirely on enriching themselves and maintaining a military force. Nothing was spent for schools or social services, and perilously little for stone roads, water infrastructure, or public buildings. Jesus advanced no specific economic theory, but He was clear that the poor and working class should be uplifted, and that those of different backgrounds should be respected and embraced, not neglected or persecuted. The classic liberal understands that these are Christian teachings, and has a healthy respect for all of this, whether they are believers in Jesus or not.

Within the past few decades, our whole nation has drifted so far from Christianity and a healthy respect for religion that this perspective has evaporated among the Left. This perspective has also diminished among the Right, which has created another whole set of problems. The subject of future blogs, I promise. America’s drift from God is indeed the source of all our problems.

History, at least until it is rewritten by the historical revisionists, is quite clear that the Abolitionist Movement of the 1840’s and 1850’s and the Civil Rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s were led by very strong believers in God, and almost entirely by Christians. Muslims and Jews were supporting players in the latter, and that is perfectly fine. The classic liberal who is atheist or agnostic knows and respects the role of Christianity in advancing both of these critical chapters in American history. While they might not personally believe in God or Jesus, this understanding that Christian-based initiatives have led to great social progress is important. It allows believers and non-believers to work together in harmony for progress, and it acts to limit outright hatred for Christianity.

This classic liberal perspective on both Christianity and America is absent from the radical Left of our modern times. In many regards, I am still a 1980’s liberal. I didn’t change too much. It was the Left that changed, and I didn’t come along for the ride.

The classic liberal and the modern Far Left are light-years apart in both philosophy and tone. This is a major difference, a major rift.

We don’t want to focus on what we oppose, but we do have to quickly list the differences in the rift between the modern Far Left and the classic liberal. The Far Left wants to demonize America, minimize the Word of God, fault the U.S. Constitution for whatever good things were left out, cast Christopher Columbus as a great force of evil, dismiss the Founding Fathers as a bunch of White supremacists that wouldn’t give equality to women and minorities, blame the White Man for all the problems in America and the world, and then use all of this as the arguments in voting for or against particular candidates. They want to rewrite every chapter of history from the perspective of victims and oppressors, in order to educate and indoctrinate all future generations, and set a political perspective of political correctness, class conflict, and socialism.

Modern political correctness is an absolutely caustic approach that fails to recognize the progress occurs in phases, and that at each phase, it would have not been possible to “do everything needed”. The Far Left approach has alienated millions upon millions of people, and driven them away from Democratic Party, which has in turn pulled the Party even further to the left, and even further from God.

The classic liberal is more inclined to agree with this webmaster that progress occurs in phases, that America is generally a force of good, and that we’re not done with progress.

If the modern Republican Party had all the answers, there would be no reason to create this blog or website. I am 100% about reforming the Republican Party, and I want to do it by bringing over whole groups of constituents. I want to increase the respect for the Word of God within the Republican Party, and bring over immigrants and minorities by the millions. And yes the classic liberal has a seat at the table. Absolutely. It is only the Far Left, those radicals with their caustic message of hate and class conflict, and their contempt for Jesus, that are not likely to be supportive.

Republicans haven’t wizened up on how to handle the rift between leftists and liberals, which is to take the high road and become the Party of unity and principle. There is only so much I can do given my limited audience.

We can accept and embrace the classic liberal in the Welcome Movement, and we can appreciate the Christian Left as partly fulfilling the need for politics and public policy to conform to the Word of God.

It is important to note that this “conforming” is a one-way street. It is the world of politics and public policy that need to conform to the Word of God, not the other way around. Our kind words of agreement with the Christian Left on this posting should not be interpreted as a weakness in Christianity. Revelation is the only process in which the Word of God changes. We do not support the modern call for churches to shift their Teachings to conform to the already indoctrinated positions of teens and young adults on various culture war matters. Those positions have been pounded into their heads by the entertainment industry. They do not derive from their own sincere and objective study of the Bible. They already know what they know, and are so close-minded they won’t even open “that stupid book”. It is the church that must lead and teach the younger generations, not the reverse. Sorry for the short sermon.

Not too much focus here, as we have pledged to advance what we support, not criticize what we oppose. I guess the ratio of supporting versus opposing will have to be 8:1, but greater whenever possible.

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It’s Columbus Day, and time again for the annual tradition of historical revisionists and haters of Christianity to bash Christopher Columbus. I want none of it, and I couldn’t care less if he was Spanish, Italian, or Jewish. The case in favor of Christopher Columbus is the case for Western Civilization. If you believe that the progress of the world is being guided by the growth and maturation of Western Civilization and the spread of Christianity, then Columbus Day should be celebrated. If you believe that some other value regime is better for the world, chances are you want to vilify the man. That’s how the battle lines are drawn. History is ugly, plain and simple. It’s full of invasions, wars, slavery, oppression, famine, and misery. That didn’t start with Columbus, or with The Crusades. Not even with the Muslims that plundered and invaded the Mediterranean and southern Europe for hundreds of years, leading to the counterassault known as the Crusades in the Middle East, and as the Reconquista in Spain and Portugal. No, the evils of the world go back thousands of years, far before the founding of Christianity and Western Civilization. The glass of history isn’t half empty, it is half full. What really matters is the advances that we have today in engineering and technology, in medicine, in computers and electronics, in the arts and sciences, and in economics, literature, government, and democracy. These advances have occurred because Western Civilization and the social structure of Christian society allowed these advances to occur. Yes, there were bumps in the road like what happened to that Copernicus guy, but progress still occurred. Despite our flaws and despite all of the inequalities and injustices remaining, humanity and civilization has greatly advanced under the Christian Western system. Thank you Jesus, and thank you Columbus. This is our history, and what matters most is where we have arrived. I openly acknowledge that much work remains to be done. If I thought we were done with the need for advances, my Welcome Movement website and blog would not have been created. I would be singing the praises of Donald Trump instead of advocating that he become more Christian, more humble before God, and less crass and domineering. Christopher Columbus is important and must be honored because he’s at the very center of the progress of Western Civilization. It doesn’t matter that other explorers and pioneers set foot in North America long before Columbus. Let me explain. Yes, the Chinese visited our West Coast, and mapped it out. They referred to America as “Fusang”. The Japanese were here as well. The ancient Minoans from Crete had massive copper mines in Upper Michigan and Minnesota. The largest mine on Isle Royale in Lake Superior is called “Minong” by the Native Americans, obviously a reference to Minoan, as is the place name of Minnesota. I wonder what Sota means in ancient Minoan? I’ll put my money on cold or snow. The ancient Egyptians were here, and the Carthaginians. Maya or Maya Rata is an ancient region of Sri Lanka as well as the name of a modern province in that country, with architecture identical to that of the Mayan civilization in Mexico, and dating to the same time period. Many words, and some cultural practices and beliefs are the same in both regions, and their calendars are in synch. To this day, South Asian DNA remains a significant component in the Yucatan, Belize, and Guatemala. Here’s one of many sources on this connection https://thegr8wall.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/similarities-between-the-hindu-the-maya-culture/ There are hundreds of Muslim place names in America, from Allamunchy in New Jersey to Tallahassee in Florida. There are Medina’s and Mecca’s in multiple states, and even American towns with exact place names for small towns in Turkey. Almost all of them have the same story, which is “the place name was Native American in origin.” Native Americans in the Eastern United States and the maritime provinces of Canada fear taking ancestry DNA tests, and they bitterly resent the findings showing substantial DNA from the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. They call it the curse of the Middle Eastern DNA. Rather than accept these DNA results at face value, modern geneticists have come up with a twisted theory called The Founder Effect to try and justify the findings. It’s a really bad case of science starting with a conclusion and working backwards to find the evidence to support it. I’d love to see Elizabeth Warren’s full DNA results. No doubt it shows substantial Middle Eastern DNA, and that may be why her test result showed almost no “Native American” DNA, to her great embarrassment. The actual origin of Native Americans, especially the Creek and Cherokee, is a matter of major discussion all over the internet. https://accessgenealogy.com/native/cherokee-dna.htm and https://www.woowoomedia.com/dna-scientists-claim-that-cherokees-are-from-the-middle-east/ Yes, the Muslims were here in America in huge numbers. The famous Piri Reis map was compiled in 1513 by an Ottoman Empire admiral using older source maps that no longer exist. The Piri Reis map shows amazing detail of places not yet reached by European explorers as of 1513. Columbus records in his log encountering a wooden sailing ship on the coast of Jamaica, with occupants in colorful clothing. He could not discern their place of origin, but the Native Americans had no ships. There were Black settlements in Nicaragua and Costa Rica prior to the slave trade, and likely founded by Muslim traders from Senegal and Guinea. They left gold artifacts with an unusual alloy mix identical to gold produced in Guinea, West Africa, and found nowhere else in the world. Various European groups such as the Vikings, the Basque, the Welsh, the Irish, and the Templars were likely in America as well. Their contact may have been more fleeting, but they also left various artifacts. The explorer Giovanni Verrazano was the first modern European to visit what is now Newport, Rhode Island. His log and his map note a stone tower which is still standing and shrouded in controversy. It’s clearly of European architecture, and it has been repaired and repointed so many times that nobody knows for sure who first built it, or when. Carbon dating of mortar can only prove when a repointing occurred, not when the stones were lain. Here’s one of hundreds of theories on the tower. http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/did-giovanni-verrazano-visit-the-newport-tower Doesn’t all of this make the case that Columbus was not so important? Not at all, just read on. What was the result of all those settlements and civilizations from all those great peoples from all of those places? What came of them? What lasting advances were made? How was the world made a better place? The answer is nothing. Nothing at all. The Muslims in particular were all over North America and left so many place names, but the physical and cultural contact was largely lost at least 200 years before Columbus, and the religion was extinct in the West by the time the Europeans colonists arrived. The contact that really mattered was the contact made by Columbus in the name of Kingdom of Spain. And that contact came only months after the last Muslim forces in Spain surrendered, and the Reconquista was complete. The knowledge of Columbus’s voyage swept Europe, and led to the major European powers exploring and settling the America’s. A vast exchange of plants and animals occurred called The Columbian Exchange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange It is considered an epic event in world history. The connection of the Old and New worlds had a profound impact on all of humanity. Europe accumulated massive wealth and power, and overpopulated from the new calorie-rich food supplies, especially corn and potatoes, that were imported and grown all over Europe. Much of that overpopulation was sent to other parts of the world as conquerors and immigrants. There was nothing like the Columbian Exchange resulting from any of the earlier civilizations that visited America. Cattle, sheep, pigs, and horses didn’t make it to the New World with the Minoans, Mayans, Muslims, or any other Pre-Columbian group. Turkeys, corn, potatoes, tobacco, and tomatoes didn’t arrive in Europe either. There was no massive collapse of the Native American population from disease, and the migrants from the Old World in those past eras eventually mixed with the Natives and lost their cultural identities. The next question is, was the Columbian Exchange a good thing? Would the world have been a better place, or advanced quicker, without this exchange. The answer is probably No. Human civilization had several opportunities for civilization to greatly advance in the past, and become “modern”. Ancient Egypt was very advanced in many regards, and even today with our best modern technology, we could not build the great pyramids. There are depictions in Egyptian art of devices that look like flying machines and even lightbulbs. Another drawing shows a baby mammoth, perhaps from Labrador? Airplanes may have flown the skies of ancient India as well. The Muslim World was very advanced around the year 1000. They also experimented with electricity and had batteries. They made spectacular advances in science and mathematics, and they founded the world’s first true universities. Timbuktu in Mali had a university before any in the Christian world. The ancient Chinese used natural gas for lighting and heating, and possibly manufacturing. They had thousands of miles of natural gas pipelines made out of bamboo. Their naval armada sailed all around the Indian Ocean, and contained huge wooden ships called junks that were far larger than those of any European power. Well, what became of these civilizations and their advances? The answer is about the same as what became of the explorers and settlers that reached America before Columbus. That answer is very little. Those civilizations reached their glory days, and then faded. That’s why they deserve to be little more than historical footnotes. It’s the history of the Christian West that really counted. What succeeded was the work of Columbus, and all the advances in Europe that happened only because the European powers extracted so much wealth from the New World, and benefitted from trade. In the 1700’s something happened in England and the American colonies that never happened any time in the history of the world. We experienced the Industrial Revolution. All of the world has benefitted. The Industrial Revolution happened within the context of Christianity and Christian civilization. It didn’t happen in ancient Egypt, Baghdad, or China. There is something about our Western value system, our views, and our perspective on the world that lends itself to social and economic development, and to democracies replacing monarchies. A key series of events occurred. First, the Renaissance led to the invention of the printing press in Germany by Johannes Guttenberg. Second, the mass printing of The Bible made the Protestant reformation inevitable. Third, the Protestant reformation set the stage for capitalism, the industrial revolution, and the rise of democracy. Thus, all of our great advances are rooted in our Christian value system, and in the rise of modern Christianity. I certainly don’t bash the Catholics, but we’d probably still be sailing in wooden ships with cannons, and living in monarchies, if Martin Luther didn’t post his 95 theses. Other religions and other value systems don’t generate societies as successful as that of the Christian West. Christopher Columbus and his voyages were a key step in the entire development of Western Civilization, and led to the rise of Europe. That’s not only our history, it’s the most relevant history of the world. Ours is the system and the culture that has conquered the world in so many ways, not just militarily. All major aspects of society from religion and democracy to education, medicine, science, engineering, technology, and the arts has largely derived from that of Western Christian civilization. Thank you, Christopher Columbus. You created our world. Yes, you deserve to be celebrated, warts and all. If some great revolution covering all aspects of society had happened in Japan, Nigeria, or Iran instead of in Europe, surely the world’s history, technology, and culture would be focused on their past instead. Our homes and businesses, and our public infrastructure, would be modeled after some other part of the world. But no, that didn’t happen. We don’t have natural gas pipelines made out of bamboo, do we? Modern western cities, even places like Dubai, Seoul, Tokyo, Brazilia, and Nairobi, don’t look like Jericho. The rest of the world is modeled after us. This is the ultimate legacy of Christopher Columbus. This matters way more than him spreading slavery or being responsible for diseases, oppression, and murder that claimed the lives of the Taino natives on Hispaniola. Equal and greater evils had been happening for thousands of years, and WITHOUT any advance of civilization to show for it. Yes, the glass of history is half full, not half empty. The misery wrought by Columbus has born fruit and created the modern world. 
We know there has been oppression associated with Western Civilization. We know there have been wars, and there will be more. We know there are great injustices still unresolved. We know that our history wasn’t perfect, and the motives of whole nations and empires were selfish and insincere. But we also know that progress occurs in phases. For instance, our Founding Fathers simply could not have established a system of democracy covering women and racial minorities. They just weren’t ready. They were the most progressive and advanced people in power anywhere in the world at the time, but the best they could implement was democracy and equality for all White men. They weren’t ready. Society wasn’t ready. Should we mock and blame them for the great steps that they took, and demand that their names be removed from public buildings? No, that’s just plain ignorant. The Founding Fathers took the first steps. Nobody else took them, did they? No other society in the world was on a path towards the full equality of all men in their society, no less to include women and other racial groups. In time, other people took the necessary further steps, and the social structure of our Christian-based society allowed it to happen. That’s how progress unfolds, that’s how history moves forwards. What about good ole’ Chris? Didn’t he bring misery and oppression wherever he visited. Well, he wasn’t ready to establish a just and fair society either. He was only ready to expand the empire of Spain, and the fortunes of businessmen there. The nations of Europe were ready to advance themselves, and to spread Christianity to other lands. That was about it, at that time. Are the indigenous peoples of the America’s, Africa, and Asia better off as Christians, and for adopting Western Civilization? Absolutely. Not a doubt about it. The Christian value system is the best value system, and the best proof of this claim is the development of the modern world. Thank you, Christopher Columbus. The real reason some people hate Columbus and our Founding Fathers is their desire for historical revisionism not just for Columbus, but for all of history. They want to portray the whole world as groups of people in conflict with other groups, and as exploiting and oppressing other groups. This is their message, this is their venom, and this is their politics. They are an unholy alliance of socialist, anarchists, atheists, and artists. They hate religion, especially Christianity. They want no limits on sexual morality or substance abuse. They are advancing a culture war, and they have largely conquered academia, the media, the fashion and entertainment industries, and the tech sector. Their intellectual development is that of a rebellious teenager. Yet collectively, they have more power than our political leaders, and they have the full determination to use it to dominate our society. That’s what Columbus bashing is all about, and it’s time for everyone to choose sides on this issue. It’s not about analyzing history and respecting the progress that humanity has made. Nor is it about building on that progress, and planning the next steps. Nope, Columbus bashing is all about spreading hate and political mischief, and upending our entire society. And the tip of the pitchfork is pointing squarely at the neck of Christopher Columbus. Our best defense is to educate the public on the role of Christopher Columbus in the advancement of Western Civilization. I have no problem with cities and towns having an Indigenous People’s Day. There’s about 350 days not designated as any kind of holiday in this country. Pick one of them. The second Monday in October is already taken. For more information, and to review all of our blog postings, see www.thewelcomemovement.com 

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