WHAT COULD BE CLEARER?:

Freedom dead, democracy dying (Aseem Shrivastava, 2/14/06, Asia Times Online)

When one has come to live in such a brutalized global village, when men in suits and ties calmly impose barbarities on others in the name of defending something they call civilization and for passing on the torch of liberty to less fortunate souls in strange lands, the time has come to ask for a clear definition of "civilization".

Civilization is nothing more than the traditions, institutions, arts and laws that define and defend the principles that: all human beings must be treated with dignity, because made in the image and likeness of God, but that this entitlement is qualified by human sinfulness and by the priority of duties to God and neighbor over individual rights.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 13, 2006 7:49 AM