{"id":1300,"date":"2015-08-11T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/08\/always-remember-that-liberalism-hates-the-western-tradition.html"},"modified":"2015-08-11T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T19:48:00","slug":"always-remember-that-liberalism-hates-the-western-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/08\/always-remember-that-liberalism-hates-the-western-tradition.html","title":{"rendered":"Always remember that Liberalism hates the Western Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>And everything to do with it. \u00a0The Christian heritage. \u00a0Western Civilization. \u00a0 Anything to do with the United States. \u00a0It hates \u2013 and I mean hates \u2013 these things. \u00a0These are the singular cause of all human suffering in the world. \u00a0Any other culture either did nothing that could objectively be called evil, or it learned its evils as a result of those things associated with the West. \u00a0And that includes the always beloved Communism, which while suffering from some unfortunate occurrences, only had such bad things happen because of \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 the West.<\/p>\n<p>With that little acknowledgement, please read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/its-time-haul-down-another-flag-racist-hate-361929\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this editorial in Newsweek<\/a>. \u00a0Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/10\/newsweek-lists-its-top-ten-presidents.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/01\/newsweek-embarrasses-thinking-people.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek<\/a>, radical pseudo-Communist, secularist, anti-Western publication that doesn\u2019t worry about little things like truth and accuracy. \u00a0Knowing that, can you tell if the article is a parody? Or is it real. \u00a0One of the problems with the emergent Left is that you just never know if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/08\/stupidity-of-modern-america.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s actually happening<\/a>, or if it might just be a great, big joke we\u2019ll all laugh about in years to come. \u00a0Let\u2019s pray it\u2019s the second option.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And everything to do with it. \u00a0The Christian heritage. \u00a0Western Civilization. \u00a0 Anything to do with the United States. \u00a0It hates \u2013 and I mean hates \u2013 these things. \u00a0These are the singular cause of all human suffering in the world. \u00a0Any other culture either did nothing that could objectively be called evil, or it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Always remember that Liberalism hates the Western Tradition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"And everything to do with it. &nbsp;The Christian heritage. &nbsp;Western Civilization. &nbsp; 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