An old friend sent me an email a while ago. He was concerned:
“My daughter is going off to university next year, and she wants to take English Literature as her major! I’m worried about her: could you talk to her?”
I had to smile. Sure, I could talk to her. After all, I had been through all that, and I had survived just fine, thank you.
But why the panic?
“George W. Bush once said, ‘God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom.’ But that’s just wrong. In fact, how any man who believes in the Bible could believe that, I truly don’t know. The Bible tells how God freed his chosen people the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery. He sent them the prophet Moses, he sent them signs and wonders, he rained plagues on their enemies, he defeated the mighty pharaoh and his armies with uncanny heavenly warfare. And when the Lord was done and his chosen people were free, the chosen turned to Moses and said, in effect, ‘We’re hungry! We were better off as slaves!’ ”— Andrew Klavan
“As much as I believe in capitalism as a method of economic development, a capitalist life is empty without spiritual content. Indeed, as much as I believe in individual freedom as the only worthwhile goal of any political system, individual freedom too is empty without spiritual content.
It is in that emptiness that militant Islam grows like the cancer it is.”
“Every nation gets the government it deserves.”
— Joseph de Maistre, 1811
“No, I don’t think Obama can be held wholly responsible for the nightmare darkness descending on the world in the absence of American leadership. He won the election fair and square. But he won it in the country of the blind.”