Khristos voskres!
by BeijingIrish (2024-03-30 18:52:08)
Edited on 2024-03-30 19:02:21
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Theologian Carl Trueman recently observed that “the West is no longer a consortium of serious cultures” to which George Weigel replied, “or serious polities.” Weigel goes on to note that he two are connected, the cultural decay of the West being a not insignificant factor in our descent into political infantilism.

Those of you with any sense of history cannot deny that current events in Europe are eerily reminiscent of the fecklessness on the part of the European democracies in the late 1930’s when they acquiesced to the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the Anschluss, and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. In the same way, our dithering, spineless policy in Ukraine represents the willful deconstruction of our ability to confront tyranny. Unless the policy is corrected, the moral and political ascendency we achieved in the long, hard Cold War will unravel, and the courageous Ukrainians will experience more death and suffering.

But I have no expectation that policy with respect to Ukraine will change. Our leaders’ minds are elsewhere. Not just elsewhere. Do you remember the Sioux warriors watching Kevin Costner imitate a buffalo? Wind-In-His-Hair observes, “His mind is gone.” Today, Biden proclaimed that the nation will celebrate a Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday.

Voistynu voskres!


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