Lessons for America today from the ancients
Our contemporary culture has sunk into a morass of lies, hypocrisy, effeminacy, treason, and abandonment that would be worthy of a passage in the Bible. Perhaps, like me, you remember reading about those societies of the Fertile Crescent that passed, almost in the blink of an eye, from a virtuous, honorable, and vigorous lifestyle to idolatry, decadence, and treachery. Could it really occur so fast?
Now we see that it can happen. Because we are living it. A humbling experience, indeed. Yes, we can pass in the space of a generation from being upright men with a sense of duty and fairness and strength, to a society in which such qualities are deemed "racist" and "sexist."I remember in my own lifetime (I am but fifty years on this earth) going to the movies as a boy and seeing, as role models, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. And today we have...well, need I utter their despicable names?...
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