no mo uro,

Your post above mine is clearly one of the best I’ve seen posted here and elsewhere in a while. Agree with every word of it (I’m an RC too – a former Jesuit seminarian and Thomistic humanist). It still rankles to hear these people consider Christianity morally equivalent to the 7th century, savage worshipers of Satan (Allah). I’m not a biblical literalist, which means I don’t have a LOT in common with the evangelicals, but we actually do share many values in common. It’s just that literalism lends itself to some very odd theology.

The physicalist reductionists on the Left want to preserve their niches of hedonism, and consider traditional America a threat to their project to gradually tease our culture into European hedonistic nihilism.