Happy Easter
By George Neumayr,American Spectator
The more illiberal a religion,the more liberals tend to like it. Western liberals who propose no place for God in the public square can usually be counted on to excuse non-western religions that impose a false and dangerous one upon it.
The explanation for this apparent contradiction goes beyond the childish and self-hating affinity of western liberals for all things non-western. The deeper reason is western liberalism’s attachment to irrationality. Having ruptured a once-harmonious relationship between reason and religion in their own culture,western liberals can’t seem to stop themselves from championing similar ruptures in alien ones.
By different routes of irrationality,western liberals and militant Muslims arrive at the same spot. Western liberals reach it by a distorted “reason”without faith,militant Muslims by a distorted “faith”without reason,with each imbalance producing its own culture of death:abortion and euthanasia in the west,jihad in the east.