In The Absence Of Truth, Power Is

One Must Never Underestimate The Profound Bigotry And Anti-intellectualism And Intolerance And Illiberality Of Liberalism.

I Do Believe That Those Who Compare The Religious Right To The Nazis Have Fallen Victim To Polemical Heat Prostration.

Determined Secularists View These As Residual Inconsistencies That They Have Not Yet Go Around To Extirpating And That May Not Be Worth Bothering About... Form The Secularist Perspective It May Be That The Essential Battles Have Been Won And Excessive Zeal In Pressing A Final Mopping-up Operation Might Only Excited Further Public Hostility.

For Paradise We Long. For Perfection We Were Made...this Longing Is The Source Of The Hunger And Dissatisfaction That Mark Our Lives...this Longing Makes Our Loves And Friendships Possible, And So Very Unsatisfactory. The Hunger Is For...nothing Less Than Perfect Communion With The...one In Whom All The Fragments Of Our Scattered Existence Come Together...we Must Not Stifle This Longing. It Is A Holy Dissatisfaction. Such Dissatisfaction Is Not A Sickness To Be Healed, But The Seed Of A Promise To Be Fulfilled...the Only Death To Fear Is The Death Of Settling For Something Less.

My Eyes Are Wide Open To The Conflicts Within The Church, But I Don't Think You Can Call It Schism.