I enjoyed this @avermeule piece despite its near-total misconstrual of my argument about liberalism, America and the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2018/01/05/as-secular-liberalism-attacks-the-church-catholics-cant-afford-to-be-nostalgic/ …
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Maybe "near-total" is too harsh. But the argument (mine) that we should hope for provisional truces in a society characterized by incommensurable worldviews is not an argument that wise Supreme Court rulings will bring back mid-century Christian democracy; quite the reverse.
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Like Vermeule (I thought!) in this essay, https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/11/a-christian-strategy …, I don't think Christians should be wedded to liberalism; I think they should hope for truces, accommodations, and decent SC rulings that allow for provisional flourishing, because it's the regime we have.
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But the Vermeule of this new essay seems to reject such strategery as a naive failure to grasp that the ineluctable logic of liberalism will roll over us unless resisted.
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I think this idea, while defensible, is in some tension with his claim that Christians should be strategic about whatever regime they find themselves within, and he needs to choose more explicitly between them. Is it strategic adaptability we need, or a war on liberalism?
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Replying to @DouthatNYT
the "logic of liberalism" would be to keep the state aloof from sacraments. The logic of the "penumbra" and "our values" is one that is imposing a new, quite sinister religion on the young. There is no accomodation to be had, and you should be very worried by that
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Many Christians will accept ostracism and loss of civil rights, if need be. But you crave recognition. You, personally, are in mortal danger if the left continues to chase Christ out of the public sphere
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