To Regret Religion Is To Regret Western

I've Heard A Hundred Different Variations Of Instances Of Unadulterated Female Victimhood, Yet The Silence Of The Feminists Is Deafening. Where Two Pieties--feminism And Multi-culturalism--come Into Conflict, The Only Way Of Preserving Both Is An Indecent Silence.

The Need Always To Lie And Always To Avoid The Truth Stripped Everyone Of What Custine Called 'the Two Greatest Gifts Of God-the Soul And The Speech Which Communicates It.' People Became Hypocritical, Cunning, Mistrustful, Cynical, Silent, Cruel, And Indifferent To The Fate Of Others As A Result Of The Destruction Of Their Own Souls.

Life Is A Biography, Not A Series Of Disconnected Moments, More Or Less Pleasurable But Increasingly Tedious And Unsatisfying Unless One Imposes A Purposive Pattern Upon Them.

It Is Only By Having Desire Thwarted, And Thereby Learning To Control It — In Other Words, By Becoming Civilized — That Men Become Fully Human.

The Loss Of The Religious Understanding Of The Human Condition—that Man Is A Fallen Creature For Whom Virtue Is Necessary But Never Fully Attainable—is A Loss, Not A Gain, In True Sophistication. The Secular Substitute—the Belief In The Perfection Of Life On Earth By The Endless Extension Of A Choice Of Pleasures—is Not Merely Callow By Comparison But Much Less Realistic In Its Understanding Of Human Nature.