Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Dinesh D'Souza More Quotes by Dinesh D'Souza More Quotes From Dinesh D'Souza ...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape. Dinesh D'Souza slavery wonder The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians. Dinesh D'Souza islamic tolerance christian Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people. Dinesh D'Souza white lying people America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world. Dinesh D'Souza 4th-of-july unique country I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat. Dinesh D'Souza country people moving The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too. Dinesh D'Souza taken christian giving And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist. Dinesh D'Souza atheist inspiration men The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide. Dinesh D'Souza suicide dream america We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a, sort of, morality tale. What the progressives do is, they take a few nuggets of American history, Columbus' arrival, then the founder's compromise with slavery, and what they do is they fast forward to their favorite episode, so to speak, and they create a story out of that leaving a whole bunch of facts out. Dinesh D'Souza slavery leaving country There's one America that Barack Obama wants, and there's a very different America that I want. I want an America that is entrepreneurial, that has a strong private sector in which religious faith is respected and even nourished, in which there's vigorous debate across the spectrum, and in which our universities teach real history instead of propaganda. Certainly the decline of America is a choice, though the outcome is not foreordained. But liberty is also a choice, and I'm doing my best to persuade the people of America to make the latter choice. Dinesh D'Souza strong real religious Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years under slavery. America took half of Mexico by force in the Mexican War. American foreign policy, the progressives say it's based on theft. Why? Because look, America is very active in the Middle East. Why? The Middle East has oil. Notice that America doesn't get involved in Haiti or Rwanda because they don't have any oil. Dinesh D'Souza mexican war country What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery. Dinesh D'Souza slavery moral ends Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence. Dinesh D'Souza west bears today Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy. Dinesh D'Souza rome leader jobs Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that date originally from near contemporaneous sources, there is far more proof for Christ's existence than for any of theirs. Dinesh D'Souza records believe jesus Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature. Dinesh D'Souza selfish critics human-nature Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance. Dinesh D'Souza events play drama Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves. Dinesh D'Souza consideration benefits entrepreneur Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country. Dinesh D'Souza patriotic country america Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion. 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