Liberalism is America’s state religion. Most Americans might practice Christianity at home, but our elites certainly don’t, and they’ve taken pains to make sure Christians’ beliefs have a negligible impact on public policy. You can threaten the president with impunity, but refusing to celebrate sodomy is grounds for losing your livelihood.
This is as intended. Defanging Christianity was the whole point of Liberalism, after all. Here’s establishment bag man Bret Weinstein straying far outside his stated profession of biology to tell Christians to shut up.
Weinstein conveniently ignores the fact that the West had a shared set of values, rules, and assumptions called Christianity. Of course, he can’t mention that because the Christian faith is an obstacle to his paymasters’ immanentization of the eschaton.
Liberal professions of faith like the above always contain a germ of irony because Liberals must embrace a core set of values, ground rules, and assumptions while staunchly denying there are any. The foundational assumption of Liberalism is that freedom is absolute. It reduces all values to preferences, and its only rule is that no one may impose one’s preferences on another.
Most people don’t notice that Liberalism is a particular belief system with its own quirks and flaws. Even most Western Christians are so immersed in a Liberal worldview that they take its basic assumptions for granted. But this is an intellectual blind spot that non-liberalized Christians can exploit.
All species of Liberal–be they Progressives, Libertarians, or Conservatives–are so conditioned to accept unlimited freedom as a basic premise that they don’t know how to react when someone questions it. Try asking any of the three kinds of Liberal, “What good does your proposed policy serve?” Watch him sputter.
Some among the Libertarian subspecies have tried to answer that freedom itself is inherently good because the freer people are, the happier they are. Like all utopian ideologies, this one falls apart on contact with reality.
Suicide rates serve as effective shorthand for a people’s misery. If Liberals are right, and freedom produces happiness, we’d expect Russian suicide rates to climb under communism and fall after the end of the Soviet Union. Instead the exact reverse happened.
The truth is that freedoms aren’t self-necessary. Every freedom has a proper end, and the intrinsic value of its end determines the conditional worth of that freedom.
This is why every right has a reciprocal responsibility. The Framers of the US Constitution gave a nod to this reality in the Second Amendment. The freedom to own guns exists to obtain the greater good of security. This relationship inescapably implies a duty on the part of gun owners not to wreak mayhem. Only the Second Amendment states what its enumerated right is for, but using the same interpretive key, it’s not hard to see the duties implied by the others.
As Clown World slouches on and suicide rates in the US rise, we get a different picture than Liberals paint of what really makes people happy. Turns out that unbounded, undirected license isn’t the key to a thriving, fulfilled life. What people want is order–the kind of order those old Christian rules and values used to provide.
Christianity creates the conditions within which people can flourish. That’s a good indicator that Christianity is right about human nature. It’s only natural that people would hunger for a Christian order, despite the Liberal worldview they marinate in.
I’ll close with the prophetic words of Benedict XVI:
But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.