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I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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I Believe That The Next Half Century

Theodore Roosevelt
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
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Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. i believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. the thought of modern industry in the hands of christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. the thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. the choice between the two is upon us.
Christian Dream Believe
Given that the nineteenth century was the century of socialism, of liberalism, and of democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of socialism, liberalism and democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of fascism. for if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the state.
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That the religious right completely took over the word christian is a given. at one time, phrases such as christian charity and christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. to perform a "christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. now, christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- christian nation, christian morality, christian values, christian family.
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The anglo-saxon hive have extirpated paganism from the greater part of the north american continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the red race. civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.
Civilization Race Unhappy
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. very different is the christian ideal. paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas christianity is the religion of the broken heart.
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In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ... in times of war we revert, as a species, to the past, and are permitted to be brutal and cruel. it is for this reason, and of course others, that a great many people enjoy war. but this is one of the facts about war that is not often talked about.
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