{"id":7049,"date":"2015-07-07T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/07\/a-case-against-withdrawal\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T11:50:24","slug":"a-case-against-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/07\/a-case-against-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case Against Withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the hopeful side of the culture wars\u2014a call for engagement, not retreat. Religious believers weighing the option of withdrawing from a culture increasingly hostile to their values should redouble their efforts to cultivate their ideas within active subcultures that influence the nation and the next generation of Americans. Those who share a commitment to the freedom to think, speak, associate, publish, and express their beliefs may not have the American Civil Liberties Union in our corner any more\u2014but that just means that we get to take up the noble cause, and the moral authority, they have abandoned.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Yes, this can be a dangerous time to be active in the culture. But it\u2019s very hard to make speech codes, safe spaces, and other anti-thoughtcrime measures work in the long term. Sometimes all it takes for the whole apparatus to come crashing down is a handful of people brave enough to speak their minds without fear.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, I don't see a lot of civil courage<\/a> out there.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Companion entries:  Waiting for St Benedict<\/a>.  SCOTUS and Benedict<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here: This is the hopeful side of the culture wars\u2014a call for engagement, not retreat. Religious believers weighing the option of withdrawing from a culture increasingly hostile to their values should redouble their efforts to cultivate their ideas within active subcultures that influence the nation and the next generation of Americans. Those who share a … Continue reading “A Case Against Withdrawal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","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=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}