The great Mark Steyn! bttt
“......you’re on a slippery slope from societal decadence to dementia......once you put reality up for grabs, all kinds of pathologies suddenly become viable.”
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Mark Steyn: Even Christians taking Christ out of Christmas
Published: Dec. 16, 2011 Updated: Dec. 17, 2011 7:57 a.m.
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/catholic-331894-santa-christmas.html
“...When an explicitly Catholic institution thinks that the meaning of Christmas is “tenderness for the past, vapid generalities for the present, evasive abstractions for the future,” it’s pretty much over. ....
“The crisis afflicting the West is not primarily one of unsustainable debt and spending. These are mere symptoms of a deeper identity crisis.
“It is not necessary to be a believing Christian to be unnerved by the ease and speed with which we have cast off our inheritance and trampled it into the dust.
“When American municipalities are proudly displaying the execution of skeleton Santas and giant Satans on public property, it may just be a heartening exercise of the First Amendment, it may be a trivial example of the narcissism of moral frivolity.
“Or it could be a sign that, eventually, societies become too stupid to survive.
“The fellows building the post-Western world figure they know which it is.”
His wit is what makes him one of the “American”greats!