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1. Rubio delivers speech in Athens, Greece
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday. In his remarks, he reflected on Greece’s role in world history and in the development of Western civilization. He also voiced concern about competing worldviews that conflict with Western values.
Rubio said Americans and other Western nations inherited from ancient Greece “the conviction that the unknown can be known,” as well as “the confidence that the world can be charted and measured and mapped and understood and that there is a rational order to the cosmos governed by certain fundamental [...] laws that men can observe and the mind can come to understand.”
“This was the foundation of the Western mind: our math, our science, our medicine, our philosophy, ethics and religion. It paved the way for the Gospel of Jesus Christ to find fertile soil in Europe and flourish into the empire of Christendom. It was the foundation of the riches of Christian theology [...] of Augustine and Aquinas and the whole tradition of natural law,” he said.
Rubio contrasted the “unbreakable loyalty to one’s code, one’s cause, one’s country” shown by “the heroes of the West” with “fanatics like the radical mullahs of Iran, whose cult of death hails child suicide bombers as national heroes and portrays martyrdom as an end to itself.”
“Our heroes may be willing to die for their cause, but our heroes do not worship death," he said. "It is precisely because we value life that we come to recognize the heroism of those who would sooner sacrifice it than to betray their principles.”
“The greatest Americans of every generation have carried the unmistakable features of their forefathers, born in Athens, formed by Rome, baptized in Christendom, hardened in the furnace of medieval Europe, endowed with the English genius for liberty and then carried across the Atlantic to be reborn on the shores of the new world,” he concluded. “Together, we must now rediscover that spirit.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
