Does the remorse of “mainstream” Christian denominations mean they have ascended to a higher moral plane, or is this but a manifestation of their loss of faith in the truth and superiority of Christianity? If the West expects a long life, it had best recapture the fighting faith of its youth. For it is in the nature of things that nations and religions rule or are ruled. Times of equality are temporary truces in an endless struggle. “Homo homini lupus,” said the Roman playwright Plautus: “Man is a wolf to man.” Added Thomas Hobbles: “I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual
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