Posted on 03/09/2005 5:53:42 PM PST by ritt
There is nothing so rigid as a secular faith. One of the benefits of such faith for the true believer, is that it creates a sense of specialness, intelligence, strength, even invulnerability. When faith is shaken the consequences can be severe, for it is a faith without a God to provide sustenance in times of difficulty. Only gradually, if at all, can a new reality be acknowledged after the old one is destroyed. In recent years Liberal utopian faith has been shaken to its very foundations. The therapetic belief that all human conflict is caused by unfairness, inequality and deprivation, that all hatreds can be resolved by verbal reasoning, and Clintonian empathy, that institutions like the UN and the EU are noble ventures, that signed agreements and professions of good will can eliminate war, that the martial virtues are obsolete-- all these beliefs are threatened. The horrors of 9-11 weakened the multi-cultural relativism that sustains the Liberal Mind. The initial reaction to those terrible events was not to question the Liberal faith, but instead we saw the timeless reaction of true believers: seek scapegoats. Search out and attack the followers of Satan who must be to blame. These of course were the evil Jewish neo-cons and their Cowboy puppet, George Bush. Faith, when threatened, will initially turn on the un-believers rather than question the grounds of its own beliefs...
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