 I have so much to say about this presentation that I gave one month ago, for a more particular collaboration by the community, we're welcome to the papers that I left on that front desk, which are English and others from which I'm turning. And I think they probably provide a useful clarification on what is a relatively brief presentation of my ideas. My topic today is the relevance of secularism and understanding of our political situation, which is the one that is now dominant in Canada, the United States, and much of the Western world. Underline this investigation or two assumptions about what secularism is or is not. One, it is not clear that secularism in the contemporary West is in part a post-Christian phenomenon. Both secularists are committed to removing traditional Christian icons and phrase the other to give them public light. For example, substitute the New Year's or Happy Holiday in Christmas, or the Black Festival in Guanza in the Christmas season. Except for the alternative to nonetheless cooperating with Christian residues, what my books describe as the politics of shame, that is the public of the state sponsored attachment and special steamer to one's nature, race, and past discrimination, is by no means a world of wide development. It is supposed to limit it to order of European thought societies. In England, Germany, and Canada, they have been stated in cautionary leaps and bounds of politics of alteration on the nature of populations. This goes on elsewhere, and I'm sure it's something we would not be able to say this also happens in France, but what I would argue is that it's just most dramatically, and it's most widespread, in one of European proxies countries, and in the United States, and Canada, countries that are part of the commonwealth, and from these areas it's spread into other non-proxies societies. And if those who ask the process of the political opportunity to incur may overstay the impure of these ideas, but in the forewars of the great wavy, often by other Christian social opportunity laws, he writes this book as helping us quote, in cap and power of faith, in order to inspire and encourage the secular social reforms established by all the world's great religions. The secular social reforms that Carter has in mind sprang from a specifically Western religious tradition, and the mind said that Marxism, while it's recognized as proxies, while Western Christians in their societies are typically punished for sexist and religious discrimination, incoming Muslims and others are usually allowed to do what Christians are committed to do. There was a willingness on the part of English, German, Canadian authorities to be indulging about the treatment of women and other religions, and this is what so far, in the response to the highest level of government in some non-proxies countries, particularly in Canada, an institute in England, an institutionalized in Sharia social practices, is the exact legal framework for Muslim communities. The reason for the adult standard of the argument is not that Christians, the religion has mutated into social guilt, and acts of public confession, focusing on the supposedly overshadowed legal prejudice. In the US, it's kind of behavior-resting certain clear forms. While it might be a Christian festival or a Christmas to de-way the universities and public administration to a generic holiday season, the birthday of the Black Solar Rights Advocate, Martin Luther King on January 21st is now the only national holiday in the US dedicated to a national hero. King's birthday has become a vested in the Christological Association. Our national media and our politicians stresses Martin's death, and they hence an assassin bloody in the garbage we're constructing in the Senate seat. And while it is considered that there are kinds of form of art, were they to come and find out the scene to depict Christ spending a year in? Anyone who betrayed Martin Luther King was less than an icon of reverence, reminiscent of medieval restrictions of Christ to be known professionally and socially. Recently, US News World Report noted that for narratives between the ages of 18 and 25, Martin Luther King is, you could quote, as the most respected person in all human history. Over with free places. Fifth, well, in his best-selling collection of political sermons, God's politics, Jim Wildes rejoices, quote, my son, Luke, attends school. When the teachers made so much of Black History Month in February, Luke is now getting the same things at school that we teach constantly at home. Books about Martin Luther King and the Solar Rights Movement. At the end of Black History Month, Luke announced to me and to my wife and he wanted to be just like Martin Luther King except I would have a different name and a different skin. Of course, nothing could have pleased us more, I quote. Not surprisingly, there was nothing in Paul's book which was on top of the New York Times that's so less for non-fiction books actually to qualify as fiction. That Luke has ever been exposed to the Bible except possibly in the context of his father's advocacy of certain social programs. Nor did one say that Christian enemies found who received God's politics the same degree of awe as the assassinating King. Jesus seems to move throughout this world like an era of social worker, more like a war, an anti-war, an English website. But his birthday comes at the beginning of another key event, a new church calendar, Black History Month, which is followed by another month while I'm showcasing of what was presented as an ethnic struggle against prejudice. This is what dedicated to women. Needless to say, what was about this is not set to my motherhood, but condition that earlier revolutions are in the spiritual calendars such as the ones in Jacqueline France or the Communist Russia paid on them. Instead of there being praises to women as many as we did in Susan B. Anthony, both of them have appeared to be the gender revolution that our current public administration promotes. I'm sorry that the pencil might be turned by, which thankfully has been moved by now, and described by the National Organization of Women, explains in many ways that have given their lives the right to vote. Contrary to this false assertion, intended to build a post-mortem church on the bones of female martyrs, no women as far as I know ever did for life extend the right to vote to other women. The extension of the franchise was the work of men. Everyone in the American South and in the West enjoyed the support of the Native men, who favored extending the suffrage to their Anglo-Saxon spouses to offset the political influence of Latin and Slavic elements. We're also occasionally made to celebrate civic saints, who performed double duty, such as Harriet Poppin, the Latin woman who spawned slaves from southern plantations into the United States. Miss Poppin, by the way, has raided second place in the survey results in the U.S. Uniform Report, which tells of something about public education in the United States. Another Christian post-Christian saint, who ranks very high on the list, is Eleanor Roosevelt, who had the advantage of far above political affiliations who was once an advocate of inculcations for women's rights. Mrs. Roosevelt was someone who enjoys considerable attention throughout the month, but her hagiography ignores the fact that she tirelessly campaigned for a single-family wage when that would keep women out of the workplace and which would allow husbands to provide food and housing to the mothers of their children. The single-family wage, which feminists in the U.S. impact as a male sexist creation, was the paramount goal of American feminists throughout the early 20th century. It was long seen by the champions of women's rights that Mrs. Roosevelt, an American secretary and a pressuring under her husband's administration, finds its purpose as necessary for the protection of women who should be mothers and home-makers. Although I have no sense of apologies to the horrible crimes committed by the Nazi regime, a wave of terror and numbers to my family, there is something noteworthy in that encounter pleasing by her German success over the unequally distorted past tense. Ms. Zutani's fixation has taken two forms. For that great setting, Nazi art and behavior were owned into the Third Reich from the entire course of German history and take an important delight in any threat of continuing German national existence. Only Germans will organize large mass demonstrations to uphold the fire bombing of German civilians and convicts with a clothing loss to World War II. Furthermore, what could not have been any other nation that created any national movements against the thousands devoted to destroying the remnants of their already battered national identity? The private observation by Germans past harmonies through the official that our sense is a founding mid of the German Republic is not even preliminary, first set for German political officials and educators playing out their country's special burden. This left self-basement, which requires for other things German historical studies always blame Germans for all international strife. Anyone on both sides seemed to be in response to us in case of the First World War, the Franco-Prussian War. It's so pronounced that one has to be in an unsighted, relevant line because I think that's giving this originally a good, grand poetic answer. And that's why this is ex-inficient. But here, too, you're dealing with something that's culturally specific. Schindler's Japanese do not be at rest because Japanese soldiers committed murder in Mainland against the Chinese and other Southeast Asians. Nor does the Eastern Orthodox Church resort to Russian people to ask the world's forgiveness for Soviet Russian crimes. After all, it wasn't for the Russian government and there were even more people in the Nazis as you were pointing out, or over the poles of the charts and having killed more than one billion Germans in the expel, at least that number from those territories they occupied in World War II. They were simply explaining the Germans had it coming. When they ascended to the Polish Jews in their complainant poles and cooperated with the Nazis here in Poland's Jewish population, Polish historians insist that these charges were unlawful. They gave Polish a darned story in Mara, but a Yiddish who works at the World Institute of Politics used a hefty monograph in 1947 for the Yiddish whose work has been translated and why the Institute in Poland demonstrates the Polish Jewish leaders increased responsible for the Yiddish in Poland to create this recognize and this goes on and on. The point being that the Poles do not run around beating the oppressed real or like-minded communities. Other people who seems to be peculiar as I would argue to certain Western countries most dramatically to the German in the case of the German. But equally suspect occurrence the defacing of Jewish food stunts in Colombia in 1959 an act against the Nazi German family prints all over it and which came to develop a crisis in these special relations was not viewed without German intellectuals, journalists and educators used the occasion to gather the German people for not even a face up to their past. There were a series of laws and demonstrations against fascism and neo-fascism that went on for decades and it was in fact as reflected in German public discourse reflected in German public discourse and have resulted in a serious attack I would argue on civil liberties in Germany. But here to a distinction must be drawn between German revocations and German Catholics. The prolonged fits of guilt and test-kissing confessions that go with the politics of shame but are far more counter to this than the German products than their capital of citizens. Ever since the end of Germany issued its first declaration of guilt what it really is it shows that in October 1945 its spokespersons have attained responsibility on behalf of their people for every political misfortune that the German government was involved. These self-condemnations now extend from Nazis into the First World War from there to this one all the way back coming through some kind of references to Jews, his two-shade to his tablecloth. And even before the Germans became a recognizable nation they were crusades the contemporary Germans now in some ways they can come in with a shadow at least in some leftist intellectuals in Holocaust. The stereotypical and, of course, these bloodbaths and invalids are made exclusively of the West and more of Germany's. Since the 1990s world with self-accusations of Germany and the Church we had an anthem now to encompass the now widely mentioned politics in a phobia as German Protestants are told is a sickness of the soul to be very great one that the vision of Berlin-Gladenburg attributes to residual tops of the German nationalism presumably to come against what would have to work harder not to go to the starting primaries of their cities to self-imprimidation is far less obvious than what Catholic they can bear is likely to find meaningless with their tolerance of Christians and their plural treatment of their whites and bloods unlike the evangelical Bishop of Lin, Volta, Hubert and so on as the Church of the Archbishop of Canterbury who has been known to basic statements way like other German and Austrian Catholic dignitaries as opposed to bringing Charro law to one fine Christian countries. Another critical distinction is that there is a lack of a law for deforestation further although American Catholics often fail to lack American immigration and typically both the left and center political parties won't much more timidly in fact in their own process their clerks are less inclined how they are to remain on the process of law and political correctness this is the point that Thomas reads this little poem demonstrating in his book within his motivation for social guilt that is increasingly characteristic in the process. It might be said that while Catholics more frequently than Protestants before the left in the US carried to England they do not do so because they are within this agreement. They are embracing their positions because they believe themselves or their ancestors to have suffered under the process of majority equally important they do not see themselves in those cases as applying these principles and certainly not Christian ones in public life it is not unusual to encounter young middle-aged Catholics to say that they personally believe that abortion is not a sign. Still, it's just fine they still want to force their views but it's not just particular views and anyone else. Such a stance is so late in the war with the contradiction presumably such bearers of tolerance would not have any trouble sitting on somebody else's throat the latest legal offense doctrine that want to source them for are those things that would not be mad at the speaker are precisely the ones who tolerated the state of soft sides what is wrong with them for any case of a traditional religious conscience which does not usually explain why Catholics are being found uncultural and uncultural left but the Protestant case I would argue is different. Protestant teachings inhabit a very crucial role in creating at least in the United States politics of shame the mediation of what's wrong with the state attempts to distinguish the righteous to sinful public declarations of collective remorse as science in one's election our United States trades the traditional products of culture and all of these trades in development are made by churches these are institutions whose leadership has been sliding through decades for a more cultural left and they vastly assured now the system underscored how far to change the effects of these tendencies to have been a process similar to the one described in books that I cited here went on across the years in the early and mid 20th century that then took the forms of the whaling of imperialism and engaging the communists of the crowd thus been expectables of the Protestant clergy in the superchance in the Canterbury in the 1940s and the congregation was chaplain jail in Sloan Hall in the 1960s and many, many quaker clergy about the community associated with the church new capacities who were the communists from the organizations making jubilant pilgrimages the common states were extolling out from social sting-daters now we find another version of Western socialism in the forms that were at least partly motivated by religious impulse for evidence in a super-processed fashion the readers refer to Wallace's quote which reminds the circle of theological justification for these secular circles but Wallace's insclerable would go out to ease his readers for jet the idea of Christian radical politics as a Christian public activity they were more than willing to hail secularism as a fulfillment of Christian high rate Wallace extends an invitation to empower through-cruel populations to enrich our geographic space no longer supposedly enlighten the past's asviator sins by visiting and praising left-wing dictatorships across the globe instead they try to rebuild their societies by welcoming the rest of the world if the American working class recoils from the Christian terror while it explains the great great name the reason is that you're economically insecure but this is not the fault of the interests but of an actual economic policy the morally flawed budgets and the lack of living wages from huge corporations apparently Wallace has never discovered that huge corporations and their defenders at the Wall Street Journal have been the forefront of those in the United States for illegal residents to the U.S. chief layman in the case of the business easily trumps that phobia no determined ones who are in the position of what the Protestant secularists push to free the western world from his or her group also includes the once indisputed saints who are now making their presence known to public contrition and outpourings of social guilt the majority Christian population that does not stand in the same accommodating belong to an unredeemed and folded world one deserves to perish at the final age of gold citizenship and promotion the solemn renunciation by the saints of public recognition and Christianity a habit that is thought to make others feel comfortable is viewed as through a modest set of war against western small minds no one's across these of course demanded from the other side which enriches by nearly standing on our soil let me point out that what I sketch is the center of this attitude that I encounter daily in my workplace today I meet people I would be looking as a professor during the politics college in Jamaica we show bears however assorted in fashion the influence that's found not surprisingly the Christian core of college has given way to a center promoting citizenship and the pronouncements coming from our president celebrate diversity internationally as expressive of our schools traditional education when the main clergy and chemists are asked whether the center's mission really embodies their belief my question never fails to occasion wonder it seems foolish that I wouldn't be asking in a certain sense I'm witnessing the fulfillment of a prophecy found in a book that readers will actualize in graduate school in the 1960s how he crosses the second state this widely read analysis out of each which was also a statement the deepest conviction we offer to Harvard professor of theology view the secularization of his religion and science trying causes views that secularism are on the right track when they try to be in America's quote waving their healthy reliance on God figure in order to achieve the kind of social progress that the Bible only hints at we must first become in quotations true human beings and with a cement and childish doctrine taught by order and observation for centuries so these things are now being widespread in today's theology departments as a fusion of critical literature of the testimony of divinity schools revealed they also point to a specifically Protestant path of secularism which was to be seen with other paths leading away from traditional literacy although these paths lead to secularism to point they are nonetheless different from each other Muslim religious skeptics are allowed to become Arab nationalists that they are to become advocates of mass immigration and cultural mixing it is also inconceivable that third world secularists would expend energy to apologize to other nations and national minorities whom their people once were to offend as far as I can ascertain it is no good as their hidden politics of guilt and to the extent that such flora and fauna have been commutable in Christians they generally thrive in steps that are allowed exclusively in secularizing the Protestant societies let me close on calling attention to what I am not saying I do not mean to suggest that what European Protestants in the North American counterparts have never acted badly in their history the monsters that they have as of all other roots to this extent were over Western Protestant societies they have seen through horrors over their seats including exaggerated and often inventing ones unlike most of the rest of the world they have tried to make amends for past forms they have also been available to the rest of humanity the fruits of their economic productivity having health standards educational institutions made when they developed societies the mission in doing these things is to effect as the people under the ancestors in doing their civilization to the rest of the world in the rest of the human race and this same category of war governments will refer to one of those historically from Western implore the self-implementation is always expanding and coming and it not includes even such normal impractices as to what gender distinctions were preferring heterosexual or homosexual family myths finding I am not embedding the fathers of the Protestant Revolution or traditional Protestant theology and I have also Luther seemingly crammed or cowed and nothing to do with what others did to their ideas hundreds of years later for reasons that no one in the 16th or 17th century could possibly have seen what they are dealing with is a twisting of a life friend who promised the erosion of red habits called the obligation of charity into something very different and he appealed to a distinctly non-ethical guilt in order to generate a total commitment on the part of a leader to a faith substitute what allows this development to occur are forces that deny existence of too well with a mind pair for example the identification of justice and charity, equality the treatment of any sort inequality as had it as wickedness because of the other stress on the equality of all leaders through high sense of individuality and their tendency to ruin us over sin as an existential condition Protestants have been at special risk to succumb to certain vile political temptations but the emphasis here should be placed on a more modern or contemporary must be an statistically described weakness discussed in those in the past my interest is in showing how old habits of thinking can be made to serve current ideologies they should be distinguished from those in our lives for the lives of city more judgment over the past thank you