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July 9, 2013

"The experiment will fail..."

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The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the World from suicide. -- T. S. Eliot, Lambeth Conference 1930

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 9, 2013 9:59 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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The Lambeth Conference is the one that approved birth control for Anglicans, despite the fact that it had been considered a sin since Roman times and before. The beginning of the slippery slope for them and for many other denominations.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at July 9, 2013 4:12 PM

When TS Elliot became a Christian, it horrified his atheist friends. He was too smart, too well-educated, too literary and talented. They couldn't understand it.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 9, 2013 7:45 PM

The same was said of Muggeridge. The last of the great British thinkers were all deeply committed Christians.They witnessed the appalling dark age of the twentieth century as it fell on their time. We are in a dark age and we don't even see it because it is so dark, and we are all distracted by the bright and shiny things pulsing in the darkness...none of them are light, though.

Posted by: Jewel at July 9, 2013 10:14 PM

This agnostic and former militant atheist (I was actually raised that way. Yikes.) has noticed, for some time now, the folly of an irreligious society thinking it can be civilized.

Posted by: Don Rodrigo at July 10, 2013 9:47 AM

the folly of an irreligious society thinking it can be civilized.

Ultimately you cannot have a society or civilization without a basic shared worldview and system of ethics. It simply cannot happen, but that's what the left is trying to accomplish.

We've crossed that break in the falls at the edge of the cliff, I fear, and from here on out its exciting but very fast.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 10, 2013 11:22 AM

The central problem of the modern Western world is not too much experience with reality, it is too little experience with it.

Posted by: Lorne at July 10, 2013 3:56 PM

People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about.

Posted by: chasmatic at July 11, 2013 10:05 PM

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