j. christian
2008-12-12 10:46:20
A lot of people are willing to kill for their cause (G. Alston), but how many are willing to die for it?
That is the essential difference between “us” and “them,” and it’s what I think Elizabeth means here. Not that everyone in the West has to confess the Christian faith, just that they need to believe in their convictions with the same zeal as the believer. And how many people are willing to die for the Bill of Rights? Do the “values” of the West inspire that kind of passion? Or do they only inspire that passion when we believe those rights come from something eternal and transcendent?
A civilization that believes truth derives from power is probably not worth saving.
