Elizabeth’s Reviews > Punic Wars & Culture Wars: Christian Essays on History and Teaching > Status Update

It is in Christianity that our arts have developed; it is in Christianity
that the laws of Europe have-until recently-been rooted. It is against
a background of Christianity that all our thought has significance. ~ T.S. Eliot (in his book Christianity and Culture), quoted by Ben House

“There were explorers before Columbus; the lands Columbus discovered were already inhabited by civilizations; many atrocities took place as a result of such conquests. With the historical revisionism, the language changed. The New World was not discovered, it was brutally conquered. Columbus's voyage was the opening wave of a conquest, not the beginning of a new world.”
This book is from 2008. 🤯

Not only is this book incredibly wise and profound, the author also quotes a wide variety of sources to illustrate his point. Here’s one, though taken out of context, that’s particularly beautiful:
“Men who saw night coming down about them could somehow act as if they stood on the edge of dawn.”
~ a letter written by a Confederate soldier, quoted by Harold Lamb, who was then quoted by Ben House