How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss Quotes

“Our civilization has moved through three world views: from paganism (no pity and no pacifism) to Christianity (pity but not pacifism) to modernity (pity and pacifism). It is now moving to postmodernity, which is a new pacifism, a pacifism without spiritual warfare, a war on the very notion of spiritual warfare, and a war without pity or mercy for its enemy”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss

“The ancient Greeks named about five hundred gods, the Romans five thousand, the Tibetan Buddhists nine million, but Americans are the most polytheistic people in history: they have named 330 million gods.

That is the root of our insanity. We demand to be our own authorities because we demand to be the authors of our own being and meaning”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss

“When you ask them what’s wrong with the world, they never say there is not enough religion. They say there is not enough peace, prosperity, security, comfort, health care, or environmental responsibility. In other words, not enough human control over nature and human nature.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss