The article posits that the presence of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Tim Cook at President Trump's inauguration is a significant cultural moment, suggesting a shift in American values. This contrasts sharply with President Biden's previous engagements with Big Tech amidst criticism of their role in censoring discussions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author references historian Tom Holland's assertion that the Protestant Reformation profoundly shaped Western ideals of liberty and individual rights, which now face challenges from secular perspectives that criticize religious institutions.
The most iconic photo of Inauguration 2025 may be the Tech Bros - Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Tim Cook - accompanying President Trump at Washington's St. John's church for Sunday services.
It was a stark contrast to President Biden's conspiring in 2021 with Big Tech to censor dissent on COVID lab leaks and lockdowns.
As leading British historian Tom Holland argues, the West's unparalleled success over the past three centuries is directly attributable to religion - in particular, the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century and the earlier Hebrew prophets that helped inform it.
Since the 1960s, faith has been under attack by the pseudo-intellectual secular theologians of the faculty lounge left who argued that institutional religion was anachronistic, sectarian, patriarchal, or otherwise oppressive.
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