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Christianity, Islam and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West Paperback – December 9, 2015

by William Kilpatrick (Author)

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For many Americans the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, was the first time they had considered Islam. Were the terrorists motivated by the true dictates of their religion, or had they hijacked Islam as well as the planes in a political cause unrelated to the teachings of Muhammad?

This book argues that Islam is a religion of conquest and subjugation and that in spite of 9/11 and thousands of other terrorist attacks throughout the world, many in the West still do not know or admit this because it conflicts with multiculturalism and belief in the equivalence of all cultures and religions.

To meet the challenge from Islam, Christians need to know more about the important differences between Islam and Christianity, yet many have been lulled into complacency by the misleading and largely unexamined assumption that the two religions are similar. The time that Christians spend in pursuing common ground is time that Islamic activists use to press their agenda.

In addition to challenging both the multicultural and the common-ground approaches, William Kilpatrick also exposes the role played by atheists and secularists in advancing Islam. Despite paying lip service to freedom, radical secularists serve as enablers of radical Islam. The civil liberties that the West enjoys are the fruit of Christian civilization, Kilpatrick argues, and only a reawakened Christianity can defend them against Islam's advance.

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Ignatius Press
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December 9, 2015
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1621640914
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"Kilpatrick's insights into Western relativism, multiculturalism, and the resultant anti-Christian attitudes form a matrix by which the rot of a crumbling society can be better understood . . . This book summons Christians to awaken their love for the true Jesus Christ of the Gospel, to learn sober truth about Christianity and Islam, and live their faith courageously in the face of Muslim aggression." --Mitch Pacwa, SJ, Author,St. Paul and the Power of the Cross

"Most politicians, journalists, and intellectuals either fall silent on the subject of Islamic theology or sanitize it through platitudes, all of which revolve around religious and cultural relativism. As William Kilpatrick convincingly shows in Christianity, Islam, and Atheism, this fashionable complacency has compromised Western civilization. In this indispensable book, he wakes the politically correct up from their dogmatic slumbers, sounding a vitally important alarm about the true aims of Islam." --George Neumayr, contributing editor to The American Spectator and co-author of No Higher Power: Obama's War on Religious Freedom

"This extraordinary book pierces through the politically correct miasma of unreality that envelops us and explains clearly and persuasively, with mountains of evidence, the threat that Islam poses today to the Church and to Western civilization. William Kilpatrick is to be commended for penning a concise and comprehensive introduction to the reality and magnitude of the Islamic supremacist threat. This book should be essential reading for politicians, bishops, and everyone who is on the front lines of the culture wars." --Robert Spencer, author of the NY Times bestseller The Truth About Muhammad

About the Author

William Kilpatrick is the author of several books, including Psychological Seduction and Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong. His articles on Islam have appeared in Investor's Business Daily, Front Page Magazine, Jihad Watch, Catholic World Report, the National Catholic Register, World, and other publications. Professor Kilpatrick taught for over 30 years at Boston College from 1970 to 2001.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ignatius Press; New edition (December 9, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 330 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1621640914
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1621640912
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 8.9 inches

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This book provides an excellent description of the decline of Western civilization

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2017

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This book provides an excellent description of the decline of Western civilization, the reasons for they decline, and how this decline opens the path to conquest of the West by the forces of Islam. The massive, widespread secularization and adherence to pleasure, the west has lost its own sense of identity and values, and the will to fight and defend those values. Our churches are increasingly empty, and so are the baby cribs. The West is just not having enough children to even replace its aging population. The West has invited millions of Moslems into its countries, but those Moslems bring with them the aggressive, supremacist ideology of Islam. They do not adopt Western values because their religion prohibits it. In addition to forming an alien parallel society in the West, the Moslems also have far more children than Europeans or Americans do. It is clear, with all the Moslems' super strong sense of Islamic identity, coupled with their high birth rate, where all this is headed. Kilpatrick has a very insightful chapter which compares the European loss of masculinity to the robust, adolescent masculinity culture of the Moslems.

The weak aspect of the book is the hope that the sleeping giant of the Catholic church can be awakened to, once again, provide a bulwark against the Islamic threat. Unfortunately, especially under the present Pope Francis, there is no sign whatsoever that the Catholic Church can be reawakened to stand up against the Islamic threat like it once did.

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Karen Ziminski

Freedom of speech and religion under attack

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2014

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Why does the Koran recommend deception and violence when more moderate means fail to convert people to Islam? The New Testament never advocates this kind of evangelism. I strongly feel that when there is freedom of speech and religion, Christianity triumphs on its own merits. That is why the United States remains a predominantly Christian nation, although our government does not favor Christianity over other belief systems. What frightens me is the threat to those freedoms.

The Koran goes on and on about the duty of Muslims to convert the world by force. That is not part of the Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, or atheism of the present age.

The author says Islam is more like a political movement with religious aspects than a religion with political aspects. It is like Communism in believing that it must conquer the world to bring about the ideal society, and that the end justifies the means. There was almost no freedom of speech or religion under Communism.

The New Testament attitude is "live and let live." The Christian parable of the wheat and the tares and the parable of the sheep and the goats both teach that God allows us to use free will, and defers judgment until the Second Coming. Christianity teaches us to spread our faith by preaching and good works, and to leave the enforcement to God.

Kilpatrick's analysis of the historical facts comparing Christianity and Islam make what I find to be a cogent argument for the superiority of Christianity over Islam. He says, "Even a poor imitation of Christ (which is all that most Christians can muster) is preferable to an excellent imitation of Muhammad."

He says, "It's time for the West to reconsider its excessive deference to Islam and start thinking instead of ways to create a future in which, to quote Winston Churchill's seldom quoted wish, 'the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men'.....We should want them to be uncomfortable with their faith--uncomfortable to the point at which more and more Muslims come to the conclusion reached by Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish secular state, who once described Islam as the "theology of an immoral Arab."

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Francis L.

I've only gone through a third of it because he ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2015

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I've only gone through a third of it because he references well. I've learned that there are people of courage who are speaking out against Salafiyya Islam. I argue his central point is is spot on; it takes faith to "defeat" faith, i.e. without having enough conviction to die for one's beliefs then one can never dissuade, neutralize, contain or defeat another that is willing to die for theirs. Does the West collectively have enough faith?

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Islamic conquest of the West—can it really be possible?

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This book will (and should) alarm readers by revealing the extent of Islamic conquest through terrorism and (even more so) through stealth jihad which has been proceeding for decades in the West. Published just over four years ago, the author demonstrates prescience by accurately describing what can now be even more clearly experienced of this threat’s rapid acceleration, so recklessly enabled by multiculturalism and the Christian church’s blind acquiescence.

Europe has largely abandoned its Christian roots, so is even nearer to complete capitulation than the United States. Globalism, multiculturalism, and atheism don’t stand a chance against Islamism. Therefore urges the author, Christians must wake up now to the looming threat, and once again use God’s truth to conquer the fables of Mohammed. Baring this awakening, Islamic conquest is on the path to arrive so rapidly that few will realize what has happened to them until too late, just as Nazism did last century.

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Sarah Gallick

Excellent case for the differences between Islam and Christianity and why they matter

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2014

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Very well written, clearly argued case for the differences between Islam and Christianity and why they matter. They are not trivial and they go to the core of each religion's beliefs.

Why do publishers scrimp on ebooks books? The hard copy of this book has an index I can even access on amazon, but the ebook that I paid for has no such index. I have to do a search to find what I'm looking for and that can get tedious.
Not to mention that it is not the full book as advertised.

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This is a must read! The author support all of his positions with historical events and doctrine.

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2017

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This is a must read if you seek the truth. The author supports all of his positions with historical events and doctrine. He doesn't just call the political opposition names as some do. He uses their own statements and then compares them to actual historical events and religious doctrine. This book will help you understand everything that is happening with western society and Islam. I first got it online and then got the hard copy for my children to read.

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Anyone who is interested in the real relationship between Europe ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2017

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Anyone who is interested in the real relationship between Christian Europe and Islam, unencumbered by attempts to pretend that the two religions are basically the same, should read this book.

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well argued, interesting book, makes strong points

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2013

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Unlike the author of this book, I am not a Catholic, not a Christian and not American, but I have to admit he makes some very strong points in this well argued and interesting book.

Let me quote a few passages:

"Multi-culturalism was an anti-intellectual project from the beginning. An offshoot of the self-esteem movement, it wasn't designed to deepen knowledge of other cultures, but to make students and teachers feel good about themselves by affirming other cultures and other lifestyles...so when New York and Washington were hit on September 11, multiculturalists had to take at face value the instantly established concensus among elites that Islam is a religion of peace. Nobody, least of all the multi-culturalists had botherd to study what Islam actually taught."

"'What would Jesus do?' is a question that Christians often ask themselves. The question seems a bit presumptuous because Christ's responses were rarely what people expected. In many cases we simply don't know the answer. But as to the question 'how would Christ respond to Islam and its clerical representatives?' there is considerable evidence that he would not be nearly as accepting as many contemporary Christians are. The evidence lies in his treatment of the Pharisees.

On numerous occasions, Christ lashed out at the Pharisees. He upbraided them for hypocrisy and iniquity; for laying burdensome rules on men's shoulders; for neglecting justice and mercy and focusing instead on minor ritual observances; and for teaching as doctrines the precepts of men (Matthew 15:9)...So how would Jesus respond to Muslim clerics who are more Pharisaical than the Pharisees ever were...what would he think of imams who say one thing in English and something quite different in Arabic?"

"The theme of Christ's power and authority practically dominates the four Gospels, but it might as well be hidden for all the emphasis it gets [from the Church nowdays]- which is a pity because, at least from the point of view of a boy or young man, that is the most interesting theme...'Wow, He could really do that!' Christ could not only feel pity for the blind and crippled, he could actually do something about it" [Islam including its more extreme varieties unfortunately has a more obvious appeal to young men, which the often wishy-washy and rather feminised modern Christianity fails to match].

[Quoting another writer Robert Reilly, on Islam differing from Christianity in being more concerned with outward complaince with rules than the reason for it] "There is not an Arabic word for conscience"

Other points:

-Given that many people probably have a natural need for or tendency to something like a religion, some western secularists & Atheists may ultimately regret their eager undermining of Christianity. In the long term they may be creating a void for Islam to fill.

-The Koran so frequently emphasises its own authenticity that it is much more defensive on this point than the Bible. This begins with the first line of the first Sura 'This book is not to be doubted.'

-Even if Christians claim the Bible is divinely inspired, they do not claim that God wrote it: "Matthew says" , not "God says". The Koran, in contrast, does claim to be the direct word of God, although it stangely has less to say that is really new and fails to transcend the literary models of its time. However, there is nothing like the Christian Gospels in their time. Quoting CS Lewis: 'If the Gospels are not history then they are realistic prose fiction of a kind which actually never existed before the Eighteenth Century.'

Frankly, despite the above, I personally am still an atheist, and an admirer of Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel , Ibn Warraq Why I Am Not a Muslim , and of Richard Dawkins when in his more balanced moods. So if even I can like and admire William Kilpatrick's book, written from a different position than my own, his book surely has merit.

What the author says about the West's relationship with Islam makes a great deal of sense. While he has not converted me to Christianity, he also makes, for me, one of the best cases for it that I can recall reading.

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Lisa Smith

Very interesting and important subject

Reviewed in Canada on April 26, 2014

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Compelling and frightening, this book challenges all of us to think about how much we should tolerate. North American society is built on the ethics and values of Christianity which Islam not only rejects, but is wholly acting to destroy. I found myself reading this book out loud to anyone who was in the room with me. Everyone needs to learn more about the spread of Islam in North America, the greatest threat to civilization as we know it.

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Reviewed in Canada on May 29, 2015

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A real eye opener, especially to western Christians.

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