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Entry: Was MLK Really Pro-Life? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/was_mlk_really_pro_life#25429 Post contents: Miss Claire, History does not seem to be your strongsuit. And trends do not encompass every place on earth. Victorianism was particularly English and WASP. The Continent may have been affected, but by no means can one speak of 'Victorian France' or 'Victorian Spain.' I think the biggest weakness of Americans is their inability draw on the wisdom of the Continent unless it confirms the Enlightenment ideologies and pathologies. They read Rousseau and Voltaire because they were considered 'classics' by Whiggish professors at Ivy League schools. Otherwise they read Luther and Calvin, who happen to confirm the radical Protestant spirit that typifies anti-intellectual American idealism, prejudices against hierarchalism, and hatred of monarchical forms even in religion. The First Great Awakening, Second Great Awakening, Feminism, and the reverence that many Americans harbour for scoundrels like Franklin and Paine and the blasphemous Jefferson are all evidence of this. Any man who claims that America was founded as a Christian nation is either a Protestant or a peculiar sort of Catholic who, because of flagrant liberalism, does not care for most people and institutions Catholics have historically cherished. Sent at: 2008 08 29