In a post entitled “ISIS and the Missing Christ”, Andrew
Klavan points out that in the post-post-Christian western world, there’s no “there”
here:
“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.”