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The Americans are the Romans of today. Material greatness, technical perfection, millionaires and beautiful women combine to divert the eyes [from] a soul essentially young and simple.
Huntington may be best remembered for his theories about the influence of climate on civilization. He argued that as civilization develops, it moves toward colder regions. The earliest civilized people hardly ventured away from the warm lands of Egypt and Mesopotamia; their technique of life could not cope with even...
-Romans II: 5-6 (Revised Standard Version)
To think it unfair that God does not save everyone would be presumptuous: "O man, who art thou that repliest against God?" warned Paul (Romans 9:20). The uncomfortable fact is, said Augustine, that ever since Eden, man has possessed virtually no initiative for good at all. He is almost...
God's Will. "In principle, it does not make any difference whether the world ends tomorrow or 500,000,000 years from now. The New Testament has always said that there would be an end and that the end would be pretty rough, to put it mildly. For the...