{"id":12397,"date":"2017-03-31T08:03:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/frankschaeffer\/?p=12397"},"modified":"2017-03-31T08:03:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:03:28","slug":"trumps-election-just-one-nail-coffin-according-humanistic-idealists-winston-churchill-supposed-secular-age-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frankschaeffer\/2017\/03\/trumps-election-just-one-nail-coffin-according-humanistic-idealists-winston-churchill-supposed-secular-age-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s election was just one more nail in the coffin of what was — according to humanistic idealists such as Winston Churchill — supposed to be a secular age of reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Trump\u2019s election was just one more nail in the coffin of what was \u2014 according to humanistic idealists such as Winston Churchill \u2014 supposed to be a secular age of reason and enlightenment. Instead of reason shaping our politics in 2017, we find ourselves at the mercy of white European nationalists, white supremacists, American white Christo-fascists and Islamo-fascists who may all hate each other but are united in one relentless activity: their global attack on reason per se<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Barbarians are at the gates of what was once quaintly called civilization<\/em> once again. These days the war on reason, mercy and compassion is led by Putin, Trump, ISIS, white evangelicals, Russian Orthodox extremists, anti-EU European far right white nationalists and the likes of Trump\u2019s war-monger sophomoric bottom-dwelling mentor\u2013 Steve Bannon.<\/p>\n

Churchill dreamed of a united Europe\u2026<\/h4>\n

When Winston Churchill<\/a> was visiting the bombed out ruins of Coventry Cathedral, <\/a>in September 1941, he believed that should Great Britain defeat Hitler, a new day of worldwide enlightenment would dawn. He would have been aghast by the rise of white nationalism in Europe in the early twenty-first century, let alone Trump\u2019s Putin-assisted-American-suicide via the buffoonish Trump\/Putin\/GOP 2016 power grab.<\/p>\n

Churchill was fighting for the survival of democracy and reason against fascism and \u201cGermany First\u201d nationalism. What Churchill had in mind if Britain won the war was an ideal of democracy and human rights rooted in the Magna Carta<\/a> and the Enlightenment<\/a>. He was one of the first to call for the creation of a \u2018United States of Europe\u2019. Following the Second World War, he was convinced that only a united Europe could guarantee peace. Churchill\u2019s aim was to eliminate the European ills of nationalism <\/a>and war-mongering once and for all\u2026.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s election was just one more nail in the coffin of what was \u2014 according to humanistic idealists such as Winston Churchill \u2014 supposed to be a secular age of reason and enlightenment. 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