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Entry: The Broken Compass Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_broken_compass#11491 Post contents: Anti-Catholicism is a long British and American tradition. I would be worth asking, To what extent is the general Christophobia of Britain today and of the Northeast and West Coast USA just this tradition writ large? Also, to what extent is this Christophobia the consequence of weak religious traditions: Anglicanism, founded because a king wanted a divorce; Calvinism, the foundation of which, along with Lutheranism’s, collapsed when the New Perspectives on Paul earthquake occurred; the Dissenters, with a foundation neither based on antiquity nor aided by reason? Furthermore: was 1688 for Britain, as 1861 for America, a political disaster, the bad results only visible now? And another provocation, given a recent article here and its writebacks. If the choices were only two, then better an Islamic society in Britain and America than a secular society and the accompanying decadent, vulgar society, with all the social pathologies: high crime, divorce, abortion, sexual perversions, sociopaths, psychopaths, the Lumpenproletariat, drug abuse, fast food and bad health, television and cinema and decadent music (the new opiate of the masses), self mutilation, the absence of any aesthetic feeling, and an utter lack of social graces, or even of decent behavior. One reads Orwell’s “The Lion and the Unicorn” and wonders if the nation which he describes even exists anymore. But then Huxley, not Orwell, was the better prophet. There was a lot wrong with Dale Carnegie America, but it was vastly superior to what followed. But at least the restaurants in England have improved! As for the mess in the Catholic Church, pray that Good Pope Benedict will live long! He’s cleaning out the mess. Sent at: 2008 09 08