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Entry: Libertarians in Heaven Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/blessed_libertarian#13394 Post contents: A nice article, Mr. Purcell, as usual. The optimism of the final paragraph leaves me puzzling, though. I normally require some small shred of positive news on which to base my own optimism. Not that there's anything wrong with uncaused optimism for its own sake. Looking about, I see no signs that we are at "the beginning of the great renewal of Christendom." Who will bring this about? Black Africans and Chinese? If we understood the difference between Christianity and the ideology of liberalism the West would not be dying. Neither the hierarchy nor the laity understands this. I understand why liberals think JP II was Great. What I don't understand is why traditionalists do. I have a picture of the man kissing the Koran, which tells lies about Jesus and Mary. He traveled more than any other pope, and made a celebrity of himself. His World Youth Days were an orgy of idiotic celebrating of nothing. His Church was dying right under his nose, many bishops and priests reveling in open heresy, and he did little about it. I watched Cardinal Law celebrate mass with him when it was widely known he (Law)was complicit in protecting pedophiles in his jurisdiction. Then we were told his successor would be a "rottweiler," but he came a poodle. When future historians look back, they will call JP II the Liberal Traveler; what they will call Benedict is still in doubt. But undoubtedly they will have to record that these men presided over the death of the civilization that gave birth to Christianity. If we are on the cusp of renewal, it will not come from us. Perhaps there are men hiding somewhere with the character and wisdom and learning necessary to begin and preside over a massive renewal, but I've not heard of any. My own prediction of the future is the following: Murder. Lots of it. Not by us, but of us. Sent at: 2008 09 08