Shirley Ballum's letter defending Nathan Giede's last two columns shows she understood more of them than I did. I looked up "modernity" in my fairly new dictionary, couldn't find it, so I presume he means "modern-times liberalism." This he assumes, has collapsed, a good thing according to him, its failure caused by a rejection of Judeo-Christian values.
Judeo-Christian values evolved from Babylonian Laws, (Hammurabi), which likely evolved from Sumerian concepts and perhaps even earlier civilizations. Most of the Old Testament wasn't even written until the time of King David circa 900 BC.
Take the Great Pyramid's phony Egyptian history usurped by Cheops. His name (or cartouche) never appears anywhere in it except as a modern forged, poorly done cartouche. Its construction is far too exact to have been done in the Egyptian First Dynasty. Other pyramids of the same era collapsed or are just poor attempts to duplicate the three originals at Giza. Even the early history of North and South America has been deeply perverted by Anglicized and European intervention. Columbus was far from the discoverer of America.
The Sphinx shows a huge amount of water damage.
Egypt's chronology of the Sphinx's age lies in a very dry time. It more likely dates to the age of Leo from 10900 BC to 8700 BC far preceding Classic Egyptian history. The Sphinx does have a lion's body.
Something exceptional happened in our distant past and classical historians have no interest in finding out what. Precision cut stones with equidistant 6 mm drill holes exist at Puma Punku, Bolivia and, structures at Tiawanaku, Sacsayhuaman and Machu Picchu in the Americas and Baalbek in Lebanon boggle the mind as to how they were built in ancient times.
It's likely a One God thesis was considered heresy (or Modern Liberalism at the time), by the multi-God ancients much as Mr. Giede views the current changes in our contemporary society.
Galileo, Copernicus, and Darwin all had their theories attacked by the conservative establishments of the times. If history shows one thing, it's that change in a conservative world takes time. Christianity barely survived the contemporary Roman thinking. Saudi women are actually behind a steering wheel.
Women gained the vote, higher education, divorce laws, and the pulpit over a hard fought 200 years. Trump's rise and Brexit are merely blips in the growth of liberal thinking. They might even help advance liberal thinking as they evolve or self-destruct.
In a more liberalized world, real progress in poverty elimination likely would increase more quickly. Modern-times liberalism is not dead as Nathan Giede and his ilk wish. It's alive and evolving so don't celebrate too soon.
Alan Martin,
Prince George
