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March 13, 2010
Brilliant but not smart
Something I had meant to post this comment left to a post at Gates of Vienna some time ago. Does anyone else think we are living through the last days of Melnibone?
Christian Europe? No longer. Now it's Enlightened Europe... so enightened that it has betrayed every single one of its principles.
With mixed success we've been coasting on our religious heritage all these years... a tough glue, but the Enlightenment solvent has pretty much cleared it away. Now we're free - where perhaps a decent society shouldn't ought to be: family, life, morals, notions of sacred... and powerless on all the most important issues.
Against an incredìbly crafty and powerful force that has weathered 1400 of history (most of it fighting Christianity) we place our trust in an Islamic version of an "Enlightenment" which has reduced us to the state of our present Universities, birth crises, vulgarity, broken homes, wishy-washy convictions.
They're dumb but they're not stupid, we're brilliant but we're not smart.
With mixed success we've been coasting on our religious heritage all these years... a tough glue, but the Enlightenment solvent has pretty much cleared it away. Now we're free - where perhaps a decent society shouldn't ought to be: family, life, morals, notions of sacred... and powerless on all the most important issues.
Against an incredìbly crafty and powerful force that has weathered 1400 of history (most of it fighting Christianity) we place our trust in an Islamic version of an "Enlightenment" which has reduced us to the state of our present Universities, birth crises, vulgarity, broken homes, wishy-washy convictions.
They're dumb but they're not stupid, we're brilliant but we're not smart.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 13, 2010 08:44 AM
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