Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 4. May 4th 1949
Civilisation Itself
Civilisation Itself
What about Ancient Greece? Rome? Israel? Each of them could in turn claim to have been the mother, not only of Western Civilisation, but of the very Christian Church.
Certainly the Church did dominate that civilisation during one period of its existence, but that does not raise it to the rank of progenitor. Nor does it destroy the other fact that Communism is the child of the same Western civilisation, and perhaps even of Christianity. So much so, that Rosenberg, Fascism's leading "thinker," remarked that "Bolshevism is the logical descendant of Christianity."