The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum God and Country

It is certainly true that history books are written from the author's perspective and may not be 100% factual. I cannot help but think of how many history books portray the American Indian as nothing more than brute savages whose main joy in life was to scalp people and kill women and children. On the other "side" are those who are wanting to portray the Indians as peace-loving people who were brutally killed and exploited. The truth, IMHO, lies somewhere in between. However, this person you have having these conversations with and who has made these accusations concerning the distortion of the historical facts, wasn't there personally, unless he is wanting to claim that he is 160+ years old? [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/laugh.gif" alt="laugh" title="laugh[/img] Thus he is either trying to rewrite history from his own private opinions or he has sources of historical accounts written by someone else. If the latter, what makes those sources any more reliable than those which are allegedly written by the biased "victors"?

As a Christian, knowing that uninspired accounts are going to contain both prejudice and error, his alternative "history" is thus no more to be taken at face value as being an accurate account than any other until reasonable investigation reveals the verity of it. From what little you have shared about this man's views concerning the alleged "agenda" of President Bush and the U.S., it appears to me that much of what he is saying is based upon an inherent dislike and rejection of Western Democracy. So, what makes his criticisms of history any more credible than that which he says is conflated with little truth and mostly error?

One thing which I think is true is that the godlessness of Western societies is invariably brought into other cultures wherever it goes. This is not to say that those cultures are acceptable, godly or preferable, by any means. But what I am saying is that the immorality which already exists within each culture, seems to be "set free" or even accelerated by Western culture. What it amounts to, IMHO, is choosing the lesser of two evils; the depravity which abounds within a non-Western culture or the depravity which is introduced by Western cultures. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/rolleyes.gif" alt="rolleyes" title="rolleyes[/img]