With regards to the west
Joel Belz, of World Magazine and one of my favorite writers (and founder of the magazine) there, has a great article in the current issue.
The article is titled, “Missing the pope’s point” and goes into great detail about pope Benedict’s message about how Muslims can help the rest of the world understand and talk about their religion. But the thrust of the article lies in the West and its inability to stand for any truth.
Belz quoted a Catholic writer by the name of George Weigel who in the Los Angeles Times wrote:
“If the West’s high culture keeps playing in the sandbox of postmodern irrationalism - in which there is “your truth” and “my truth” but nothing such as “the truth” - the West will be unable to defend itself. Why? Because the West won’t be able to give reasons why its commitments to civility, tolerance, human rights, and the rule of law are worth defending. A Western world stripped of convictions about the truths that make Western civilizations possible cannot make a useful contribution to a genuine dialogue of civilizations, for any such dialogue must be based on a shared understanding that human beings can, however imperfectly, come to know the truth of things.”
