‘Virtue’ Gone Haywire: How False Humility Has Torn Us Apart
We are the Splintered States of America, but we are hardly alone in it: We live in the splintered fragments of Western civilization.
What happened? How did we fall apart so? There’s a fascinating piece of the story that’s not often told. Based mostly in Europe, it’s a tale of how the Western world took up a uniquely Christian virtue but carried it in seriously unchristian directions.
We thought humility was a good thing, and it is; but not that kind of humility.