March 6, 2006

The Equivalency Fiction

By Selwyn Duke
No, Not All Cultures and Religions are Equal If anything renders people sheep among wolves, it's when they convince themselves that every creature is a sheep.  We live in an age in which one of the few sins is giving offense, one of the only virtues is a tendentious tolerance and one of the top priorities is getting along.  In light of this, it's not surprising that a steadfast refusal to draw moral distinctions is all the rage. Our divorcing of charity from morality takes many forms.  Enter many American classrooms and you will find a multiculturalist curriculum that paints all cultures as morally equal.  Take a course in comparative religion and you'll often see disparate faiths cast merely as equally valid  (or equally invalid) competing myths.  Of course, the preponderance of this phenomenon extends well beyond the walls of the academy. To lay claim to any kind of superiority on behalf of your culture or religion is considered very bad form in...(Read Full Article)