Occupation: Author Birth: 1946
I have always felt that many Christians, deeply sincere Christians, support the idea of separation of State and Church and the secularist in that sen….
The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction..
In the West we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live as we choose. Liberty is codified in human rig….
I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the co….
Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to ….
You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nas….
By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values..
The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of m….
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization..
Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the moment that Eur….
It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The ….
We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set the goals and contents of our own lives; the W….
The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventi….
Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism.
We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam..
Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures..
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense..
As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is….
In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Kor….
Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preferen….
Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way..