Two Enlightenments By Linda Kimball

"The Anglo-American variant of Enlightenment thought is distinct for its emphasis on God as man's creator, morality and virtue, family, religion, individuality, property, custom, law, community, order, freedom, prosperity, and recognition of man’s fallen nature.
“9th Circuit Endorses Censoring Christians,” ruling declares ‘family values,’ ‘natural family,’ and ‘marriage’ constitutes hate speech.
— WorldNetDaily, 3/8/07
“Walter Cronkite Endorses Campaign to Force Christianity Out of US Public Life”
— LifeSiteNews, 2/28/07, Gudrun Schultz)
These are but two examples out of thousands that expose the Left’s relentless assault against America’s founding Christian-Judeo worldview and traditional culture. All too many Americans allow these attacks to occur because on one hand, they’ve been dumbed-down and deceived by the education establishment and media, while on the other hand, they’ve been taken in by a myth.
The myth assures Americans that there was but one Enlightenment school of thought, that it is synonymous with American ideals and progress, and that religion — particularly Christianity — must be kept strictly separate from the State. Not only is all of this untrue, but these notions are invidious alien transplants to our shores.
In fact, a schism occurred among Enlightenment thinkers from which emerged two distinct and antithetical schools of thought. For ease of identification, Balint Vazsonyi refers to them in his book America’s 30 Years War as the Anglo-American and the Franco-Germanic."

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