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November 17, 2015
On candlelight vigils
The refusal to deal with reality — and I mean hard-tack, material, worldly reality here —is paradoxically the consequence of refusing to deal with spiritual realities. It comes home to us again as the fatuous displays of an affected grief continue in Paris, and sympathetically all over the West, as also in the cells of secular Westernization, elsewhere. Of course, many in the Islamic world are not soi-disant “grieving” at all. They are quietly, and in some places noisily, exulting. : Essays in Idleness
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 17, 2015 9:31 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.