The West Really Is A Superior Civilization
We do not defend one civilization over another out of irrational passion. The West is not a football jersey we wear to compensate for our insecurities or our lack of personal identity. It is something closer to what the wise G. K. Chesterton said: “We are not asked to take off our heads when we enter the Church, but we are asked to take off our hats.” We do not adhere to Western values out of blind faith. We do so because there are a million reasons behind them. We defend the West because we believe it represents the most advanced and prosperous moral, political, and social order in the history of civilization. Because we believe it is better. The Christian West is undeniably better than everything else; the proof of that is, for centuries, much of the non-Western world has tried to invade our countries. Far be it from me to jump to conclusions, but I doubt they are fleeing absolute happiness. We can argue that the West b...