“There has been an absolute failure to educate people as to what Western civilization is …”
Or is it a successful refusal to pass along that knowledge, I wonder?
But before I get conspiratorial here, I’d plead for leniency by asking how many people we know and with whom we already agree who can explicate the distinction that was made at the time between the French Revolution and the American War of Independence? Furthermore, how many can speak knowledgeably about that same difference of opinion as it was argued between Adams and Jefferson? (A: shamefully few of us, yet it’s something so basic to the history of conservatism.)
Paul of Alexandria, I couldn’t disagree more about what secularists believe, or rather how the psychology actually operates during the believing (which I grant is different than the debated Object of belief).
IMHO:
1. The secular progressive experiences a faith, just a shabby, misguided one. I say, be relentless in challenging it as a shallow faith.
2. [Agreed]
3. But the secularist is a Deist, and believes in the inevitability of a Utopia, its secular-materialistic “God,” or at least in its constant urging throughout the “trajectory of history.”
The progressive being the pinnacle and “cream,” reminds me of the corruption throughout history in segments of the priest-class, which has always rationalized itself by its status as apex.
Current progressivism strikes me as an obnoxious, new priest-class, with nothing deep to offer other than what they make up each day … for the rest of us to follow (to paraphrase Justice Scalia).
