The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips

(Note: The World Turned Upside Down was published in four limited edition colors. Faced with the very real challenges of spiraling demographics and violent, confrontational Islamism, the West is no longer willing or able to defend the modernity and rationalism that it once brought into being.

Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to its legitimate threats. Her weekly column, which currently appears in The Times, has been published over the years in. John Craces Guardian column summarises Melanie Phillips new book, World Turned Upside Down, providing an amusing insight into the worldview that insists. Scientists skeptical of global warming are hounded from their posts, Israel is demonised, and the US is vilified over the war on terror – all on the basis of blatant falsehoods and obscene propaganda. Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. Read The World Turned Upside Down The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power by Melanie Phillips available from Rakuten Kobo. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. In The World Turned Upside Down, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of human irrationality is the slow but steady marginalisation of religion. With the Islamists intent on returning the free world to the 7th century, it seems western civilization is no longer willing or able to defend modernity and rationalism. As the West turns on its religious and cultural traditions, it is succumbing to the ‘soft totalitarianism’ of irrational, relativist ideals.

The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips