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Rubio: Only The Christian West Could Build The ‘Greatest Civilization In The World’

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The West’s achievements are the result of a distinct character shaped by ancient Greece, Rome, and Christianity, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday, urging Western nations to defend that inheritance while warning against open borders and declining national pride.

Speaking from the Pnyx in Athens, Rubio described Western institutions as the “outward expression of more fundamental qualities we see in the Ancient Greeks — qualities that can’t be reduced to any particular political system or theory.”

Rubio said ambition, invention, curiosity, individuality, and exploration are characteristics that ultimately helped create the West.

“They were the characteristics of a people — expressed in their traditions, their stories, their imagination; in the qualities they demanded of their citizens; in the things they lived and fought and died for,” Rubio said.

Among those qualities, Rubio said, was the idea that the universe had an inherent rational order that humans could discover. He then connected that understanding to Western science, philosophy, and, most importantly, Christianity.

“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 highlighted that civilization had a “common view of man and his place in the universe,” a “distinctive understanding o virtue,” and “objective standards and ideals to strive towards.”

Rubio traced that inheritance through European Christendom to the United States, describing our forefathers as “born in........

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