To Regret Religion Is To Regret Western

A Curious Reversal In The Locus Of Moral Concern Has Taken Place: People Feel Responsible For Everything Except For What They Do.

Where A Reputation For Intolerance Is More Feared Than A Reputation For Vice Itself, All Manner Of Evil May Be Expected To Flourish.

The Idea That Freedom Is Merely The Ability To Act Upon One's Whims Is Surely Very Thin And Hardly Begins To Capture The Complexities Of Human Existence; A Man Whose Appetite Is His Law Strikes Us Not As Liberated But Enslaved.

The Loss Of The Religious Understanding Of The Human Condition—that Man Is A Fallen Creature For Whom Virtue Is Necessary But Never Fully Attainable—is A Loss, Not A Gain, In True Sophistication. The Secular Substitute—the Belief In The Perfection Of Life On Earth By The Endless Extension Of A Choice Of Pleasures—is Not Merely Callow By Comparison But Much Less Realistic In Its Understanding Of Human Nature.

I've Heard A Hundred Different Variations Of Instances Of Unadulterated Female Victimhood, Yet The Silence Of The Feminists Is Deafening. Where Two Pieties--feminism And Multi-culturalism--come Into Conflict, The Only Way Of Preserving Both Is An Indecent Silence.