{"id":1360,"date":"2023-06-25T04:25:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T04:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/25\/rod-dreher-on-loss-of-faith-in-institutions\/"},"modified":"2023-06-25T04:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T04:25:08","slug":"rod-dreher-on-loss-of-faith-in-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/25\/rod-dreher-on-loss-of-faith-in-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Dreher on (Loss of) Faith in Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was pleased to see the all-Muslim city council in Hamtramck, Mich., stand up to the progressive sleazebags and say no, they are not going to fly Pride flags over city property. <\/a>It\u2019s against local moral standards, they say \u2014 and they\u2019re right. More and more, we see Muslim parents standing up and doing the job of speaking out that Christians will not do.<\/strong> People who never read Michel Houellebecq\u2019s controversial 2015 novel Submission <\/em>think mistakenly that Muslims are the villains, because it\u2019s about a democratic Islamist takeover of France. They\u2019re not the heroes, but not villains either. The demoralized, secularized, gutless French are the villains. They are spiritually and morally exhausted, and surrender to Islamist government because they don\u2019t know what else to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Me, I absolutely don\u2019t want to live under Islamic government, but if I had to choose between living under the governance of the Hamtramck City Council or the Los Angeles city council (see below), that wouldn\u2019t be a hard call.<\/strong> Twenty-two years after 9\/11, I can hardly believe I typed that line, but here we are.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why are we Christians so soft, and so uncaring about decadence? I don\u2019t get it. I really did think that the Left going after kids to sexualize them was the bright red line that was going to make most people revolt against the sexual orientation\/gender identity madness, but it hasn\u2019t, not really. It may yet, but we\u2019re going to have to sink even deeper into the filth before we hit bottom. We are still being lied to, constantly, by our government, by the medical establishment, and by the media about transitioning kids \u2014 and most people just chew their cuds and carry on.<\/strong> A federal judge in Arkansas just overturned the state\u2019s ban on transing kids.<\/a> Big Trans and its allies among elites are going to have their way \u2014 and most of us yawn and move on. It makes no sense. Do people ever think that their kids might end up on Pensacola beach, doing dildo ring toss with the dykes, or getting drunk and engaged in group masturbation?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of the great religions, Islam is the worst, and Sharia law is antithetical to classical American values. BUT, if we need to make common cause with (moderate, non-terrorist) Muslims to defeat the utterly destructive, anti-civilizational Woke-Left and their globalist enablers, then so be it!<\/em> I'll say it again: we need a broad coalition of the sane and the reasonable to defeat our enemies.  Hell, even the socialists over at The Militant<\/a> are talking more sense than the wokesters!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here (emphases added) I was pleased to see the all-Muslim city council in Hamtramck, Mich., stand up to the progressive sleazebags and say no, they are not going to fly Pride flags over city property. It\u2019s against local moral standards, they say \u2014 and they\u2019re right. More and more, we see Muslim parents standing up and doing … Continue reading “Rod Dreher on (Loss of) Faith in Institutions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}