Why Obama Can Equate ISIS with Christians

Jerry Newcombe has a very insightful article today in Townhall about the problem of truth in the post-Christian West. From a political standpoint, and why the President is looking like such a confused and un-American soul every time he makes a foreign policy pronouncement, Newcombe quotes George Weigel, a Catholic intellectual on the problem inherent in discarding the idea of absolute and knowable truth:
  “If the West's high culture keeps playing in the sandbox of postmodern irrationalism---in which there is ‘your truth’ and ‘my truth’ but nothing such as ‘the truth’---the West will be unable to defend itself. Why? Because the West won't be able to give reasons why its commitments to civility, tolerance, human rights and the rule of law are worth defending.”

“A Western world stripped of convictions about the truths that make Western civilization possible cannot make a useful contribution to a genuine dialogue of civilizations, for any such dialogue must be based on a shared understanding that human beings can, however imperfectly, come to know the truth of things.”

This is why Obama and the United States generally is descending to a second-rate world power with nothing really to add to any of the critical foreign policy questions vexing the world. We have forgotten who we are and where we came from. 

townhall.com/columnists/jerrynewcombe/2015/02/06/truth-in-a-postchristian-west-n1953278