Catholics in the nineteenth century removed their children from public schools to put them in parish schools. And then came the gut-punch of realization that brought to the surface the questions I'd never asked properly: "What gives me the strength to carry on against impossible odds? By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Mexican immigrants are, on average, devoutly Christian; how are they destroying Christian civilization?

ANY imposition of a particular set of values by the American federal government is immoral and unconstitutional, whether it is rabidly pro-American or anti-American. I'm not much of a religious person, but it is hard not to agree with Pat on the decline of Western Civilization.

He said that the greater the concentration of wealth in individuals, the more the fight for political power revolves around questions of money. In Spengler's depiction, Western Man was a proud but tragic figure because, while he strives and creates, he secretly knows the actual goal will never be reached. The good news- 98 percent knew rapper Snoop Doggy Dog, and 99 percent identified Beavis and Butthead. The book received unfavorable reviews from most scholars even before the release of the second volume.

Spengler believed that a Magian pseudomorphosis began with the Battle of Actium, in which the gestating Arabian Culture was represented by Mark Antony and lost to the Classical Civilization. Buchanan was right about a heck of a lot - not everything, no, but a lot - and it is growing rather tiresome watching 99% of conservative leaders refuse to learn lessons he laid out in this easy to read, entertaining book. What Marcuse offered was intellectual cover for cowardice, a moral argument for malingering, a way to dodge the draft while feeling superior to those who went.He wavers between wanting state and local determination of values and wanting the leftist values currently imposed from on high to simply be changed to “traditional” values. Spengler believed that Enlightenment rationalism undermines and destroys itself, and described a process that passes from unlimited optimism to unqualified skepticism.

The transition is not a matter of choice—it is not the conscious will of individuals, classes, or peoples that decides. He believed that Spengler's insights were often more profound than those of his more liberal contemporaries, and his predictions more far-reaching.When was immoral and shameful- promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide- has become progressive and praiseworthy. The difficulty with this dichotomy is that comfort has been the primary pursuit of Christianity for centuries. Spengler divided the concepts of Culture and Civilization, the former focused inward and growing, the latter outward and merely expanding. The de-Christianization of America is a great gamble, a roll of the dice, with our civilization as the stakes. And the medium, now matured, no longer the fifties fiefdom of Howdy Doody and Matt Dillon, could not only transmit the new ideas, it could reinforce them by creating new visual realities.