"All this happened because people have forgotten God." This is the explanation for the great upheavals in Russia and the main feature of the 20th century: people forgot God. All the major crimes of the century were determined by the flaws of the human consciousness, which lacked divine heights.
The national character exists: it arises from the layering of a nation's historical experiences, traditions, customs, and worldview. According to the ethnological dictionary, the national character is the sum of specific psychological traits that manifest in behavior, ways of thinking, and mentality.
During his imprisonment following the Beer Hall Putsch (April 1 to December 20, 1924), Hitler began writing Mein Kampf. In it, he defended his father against accusations of antisemitism, claiming the term "Jew" signified cultural backwardness. According to Hitler, as a child, he paid no attention to the Jews of Linz, who seemed no different from...
Austria-Hungary had a significant Jewish population. In Vienna alone, approximately 200,000 Jews lived, many of whom had migrated from the eastern provinces, particularly Galicia. At that time, the antisemitic movement in Vienna was already quite vocal, spreading slanderous accusations of destructive behavior against Jews. It claimed that the...
There are two events that explain why the world is no longer as ideal as the one God created: the Fall of Man and the Flood. After the Fall, death, disease, and fear appeared.
The Flood was God's universal judgment upon mankind, which had turned evil. After forty days of rain, it destroyed all but eight people. The Flood...
Among all the forces likely to reshape the world in the next generation, demographic factors are probably the most significant. Demographic changes will relentlessly exert their influence on living standards, global politics, the natural environment, and interpersonal behavior.
Thomas Aquinas initiated the debate that is typically characterized by the concept of "nature and grace." Grace represents the higher level: the Creator God, heaven, heavenly things, the invisible world, the human soul, and unity all belong here. Nature represents the lower level: the created world, the earth and earthly things, the visible world,...