Today on Fox and Friends weekend co-host Julian Philips illustrated perfectly the misguided reasoning adhered to by many on the left in this country and the world.
In attempting to justify the embassy burnings in Damascus and Lebanon, Phillips matter of factly states "different religion, different culture." In other words how dare us judge them according to our moral philosphy. Regardless of what they do, as long as it is acceptable based on "their" religion and culture it should be OK with us.
What a warped and dangerous view that truly is. It virtually justifies every atrocity perpetrated by man since the beginning of time. There is no such thing as good and evil, only different and different is non pajorative. By this line of reasoning the Spanish inquisition, Stalins massacre of 40,000,000, the Salem witch trials, even slavery would be morally neutral because all were results of an adherence to existing religious and or cultural standards of the time.
What Phillips and people like him refuse to accept or at the least understand is the concept of universal truth. That certain behaviors regardless of how pure of heart when committed are oecumenically wrong. The list of universal truths is not considerable or sweeping it is however inviolate. It's what separates human kind from the beasts of the earth and it's what has been contravened in ever atrocity perpetuated since the first cave man whacked his compeer in the head with a rock.
Who knows what it will take to open their eyes; 9/11 didn't do it. One thing for sure, the longer they make excuses for abhorrent bevavior, the more devastating to all cultures that behavior will become.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
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