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Old 08-17-2016, 12:36 PM   #164
calgaryblood
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Originally Posted by peter12 View Post
The teleology (I am doubling down on fancy words) of Western liberalism is atomization and individualization. This is all well and good if you have the luck or the will to exist within or create a social environment that allows your individual skills to thrive.

I've mentioned Charles Murray's Coming Apart as a good first step into understanding why certain communities are thriving, and others are rapidly failing. Incidentally, more successful communities are strongly Christian or at least attend a church regularly.

Islam, with its mythos of dominance, war, and eschatological finality, enters into the personal void like nothing else.
If by strongly Christian you mean the white middle class Christians then yes, but you know there are black communities in the States who are living in third world conditions with extreme poverty? Or do they not fit your "Christian" agenda?
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