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Kathianne
08-15-2015, 04:31 AM
More than the politicians and most citizens, the end is near:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3197450/Lord-Rings-actor-fears-lost-moral-compass-completely-fears-end-Western-European-Christian-civilization.html


Lord of the Rings actor warns world has 'lost its moral compass completely' and fears the end of 'Western civilization' due to ISIS threat in Middle East


John Rhys-Davies lamented the 'extraordinary silence in the West'

He claimed Christianity was being 'wiped out' in the Middle East but neither America or Britain were doing anything about it

The British actor told US interviewer Adam Carolla that political correctness was too blame, with people too scared to criticize other groups

The Welsh actor, 71, also talked about his memorable movie role in Indiana Jones: The Raiders of the Lost Ark

By TOM WYKE FOR MAILONLINE (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Tom+Wyke+for+MailOnline)
PUBLISHED: 03:26 EST, 14 August 2015

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The conversation quickly switched to modern-day atrocities, including the ISIS beheadings in the Middle East.

Rhys-Davies said: 'Basically, Christianity in the Middle East and in Africa is being wiped out - I mean not just ideologically but physically.'


He warned of how 'people are being enslaved and killed because they are Christians' and claimed that Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf is 'a bestseller in the Middle East'.


He told his American interviewer: 'Your country and my country (Wales) are doing nothing about it. We have lost our moral compass completely.'


Carolla suggested political correctness was the culprit, saying: 'Why is it so evolved not to judge?This notion that we’ve evolved into a species that’s incapable of judging other groups and what they are doing, especially when it’s beheading people or setting people on fire or throwing acid in the face of schoolgirls… I like that kind of judging. That’s evolved!'


Rhys-Davies replied: 'This is a unique age. We don’t want to be judgmental. Every other age that’s come before us has believed exactly the opposite. I mean, T.S. Eliot referred to "the common pursuit of true judgement". Yes, that’s what it’s about. Getting our judgments right, getting them accurate.

'I think (this is) an age where politicians don’t actually say what they believe. They are afraid of being judged as being partisan. Heaven forbid we should criticize people who, after all, share a different "value system".


'But it’s all relevant, it’s all equally relative. We’re all the same. And God and the devil, they’re the same, aren’t they, really? Right and wrong?

It’s really just two faces of the same coin.


'We have lost our moral compass completely, and unless we find it, we’re going to lose our civilization.


'I think we’re going to lose Western European Christian civilization anyway.'


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Drummond
08-15-2015, 05:18 AM
More than the politicians and most citizens, the end is near:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3197450/Lord-Rings-actor-fears-lost-moral-compass-completely-fears-end-Western-European-Christian-civilization.html

Completely brilliant piece - so much so that I can't add anything useful to it. :clap:

For what little it's worth, this actor appears to be far better known in America than over here (he's Welsh, even though he sounds English .. maybe the name gives it away ..). I'd never even heard of him, until I saw him in the sci-fi series 'Sliders', and I spent several minutes reflecting on whether his British accent was false ... before deciding he must be English .. !

But full marks to him. Seeing him speak out like this is a breath of fresh air. And his message is likely to resonate, sadly, rather more strongly in America than in the UK, where PC imperatives rule us a lot more completely.

Noir
08-15-2015, 05:44 AM
So Britain should be committing troops to Africa? Or what else exactly?

indago
08-15-2015, 06:18 AM
So Britain should be committing troops to Africa? Or what else exactly?

PEACEKEEPING (http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?50898-A-military-question&p=754373#post754373)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASsNtti1XZs

Drummond
08-15-2015, 06:44 AM
PEACEKEEPING (http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?50898-A-military-question&p=754373#post754373)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASsNtti1XZs

- A favourite clip of mine ! I recorded it a couple of years ago.:clap:

Drummond
08-15-2015, 06:50 AM
So Britain should be committing troops to Africa? Or what else exactly?

Well, Noir, at least I know this much. As pleased as I was that Blair committed us to our role against terrorists, supporting the War on Terror .. we SHOULD be militarily more proactive than we are. I detest the Leftie mood that'd have us going for feeble neutrality, amounting to surrender, as a seemingly permanent condition, where even WE could make a useful difference.

By the way, I think we could have done even more to assist GW Bush than we in fact did. I regret that we didn't. I'm sorry we weren't more useful than we actually were in that fight.