America, your plane has landed - can you hear the clicks in tandem? The collective unbuckling of personal responsibility has (long since) begun.
Never underestimate the strength of the vanity of the weak. When they come for yesterday’s traditions, their real aim is the doctrine of free will. In the secular war on religion, God is just a civilian casualty.
Because: whatever grants freedom to change for the better condemns those unable to do so! When one understands their will to be weak, the best way to save face is by claiming it’s not there at all. And then, of course, the logical next step is to reject its existence anywhere, for anyone, entirely!
Let me ask a question (to both you and me). What, truly, are we looking for in this one unexplainable life we’ve been given? An honest expression of our ultimate self (perhaps in the form of love, art, community, etc.) or a plausible (and, to make it most effective, pity-inducing) excuse to pardon our too often half-hearted search for it?