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The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power by Melanie Phillips (Paperback, 2011)
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Faced with the very real challenges of spiraling demographics and violent, confrontational Islamism, the West is no longer willing or able to defend the modernity and rationalism that it once brought into being.
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In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular conspiracy theories: AIDS was created in a CIA laboratory, Princess Diana was assassinated, and the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. In The World Turned Upside Down, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of irrationality is the slow but steady marginalization of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based. Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. Scientists skeptical of global warming are hounded from their posts, Israel is demonized, and the US is vilified over the war on terror-all on the basis of blatant falsehoods and obscene propaganda. Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to its legitimate threats. Faced with the very real challenges of spiraling demographics and violent, confrontational Islamism, the West is no longer willing or able to defend the modernity and rationalism that it once brought into being.Product Identifiers
PublisherEncounter Books,USA
ISBN-139781594035746
eBay Product ID (ePID)111612584
Product Key Features
SubjectGovernment
Publication Year2011
Number of Pages512 Pages
Publication NameThe World Turned Upside Down: the Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorMelanie Phillips
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height228 mm
Item Width152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorMelanie Phillips
TopicReligious History
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- 29 Jul, 2020
Excellent and apposite.
This book is the best summary of how we have reached where we are in Western civilisation. I am 65 & can say that this is the best read of its kind in my life. I have already made a gift of it to two friends and intend to gift new copies to a few more. Reverend Kevin PrinceVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
