Western Progressives often excuse the worst behavior exhibited in the Arab world by evoking a context of culturally different but ultimately lowered standards. The Arab Street with remarkably few exceptions have done their best to live up to this appraisal.
The hatred of the Jew and Israel by various Christian nationalists is so diabolical that many seem to show little concern for the possibility that the Holy Land could indeed fall into Islamist hands. Hatred does indeed blind one to rational decision making.
Ultimately every framework of knowledge acquisition is guided by a leap of faith in a system of understanding. The more robust of these systems minimize such a leap.
The problem with change is not that it is intrinsically bad (it can often be positive) but that much of it is initiated by partisans who have devoted too little time to the mechanism of its initiation and workable contingencies that can re-correct should the change fail.
It is the politics of envy that guides most leftist policy.
Nobody can truly believe in G-d and still be a self centered narcissist for it is the transcendent being that reaffirms our limitation.
It is a poverty of historical knowledge that drives extremism.
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