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2000 years of shaping the west : Comments
By Simon Smart, published 2/7/2012Geoffrey Blainey is used to compressing the uncompressible, and has done it again in A short History of Christianity.
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It is nevertheless the case that individual liberty is more highly valued in the Christian West than elsewhere and, in my view, the work of Locke, Hume and Mill would not have been possible without Thomas Aquinas, Luther and Francis Hutchesson.
The IPA's campaign to promote the values of Western Civilisation seems to me to be based on the legitimate view that Western Civilisation and particularly British political institutions form the basis of 21st century Australian society and provide the most satisfactory lens through which to begin to imagine our Australian future.
By the way, it has been predominantly government funded agencies that are promoting what we are supposed to see as a morally superior, 'healthy lifestyle'.