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Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

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Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

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I have always felt that many Christians, deeply sincere Christians, support the idea of separation of State and Church and the secularist in that…

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In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The…

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I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

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It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of…

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The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter…

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

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Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

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The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism…

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near…

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I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

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