Marco Rubio's address to the Munich Security Conference has been widely praised by conservatives and independents, but he made a serious mistake that blurred the distinctions among factions in the West. This mistake suggests that the fate of our civilization rests on America alone. The primary mistake is not to treat the West's intellectual awakening, the Enlightenment, as a monolith. The English and Scottish Enlightenments were more different from each other, focusing on reform, gradualism, and the advancement of existing institutions. However, Rubio was also mistaken about Europe being the birthplace of ideas that influenced the West, not in Europe but in ancient Israel. The loss of this influence on Western civilization reflects the loss of the idea-seeds and influence on the continental continent.