“We’ve gone from hopeful thinking to wishful thinking”

Joseph was right when he said that there was no separating line between the spiritual and the secular. While the world may be oblivious to a spiritual poverty and disease and weakness, it may be easier to see in our secular accomplishments. We are witnessing our own secular damnation set in.

It has been prophesied that someday we will be as far ahead of the world in science as we are now in religion. It has also been prophesied that we shall have our own Shakespeares and Miltons. I think it is time we stop living below our privileges and get to work and start making these things happen.

“We are the most important and maybe the only country that fully embodies the sanctity, dignity, independence, and responsibility of each and every person.”

Objection, assumes facts not in evidence. Cf. Roe v. Wade (US, 1973)

I didn’t understand why the author was using hyperbole to bolster his thesis until I saw it was by P.J. O’rourke.

Hyperbole or not, it is true that the United States, while not fully embodying “the sanctity, dignity, independence, and responsibility of each and every person”, on balance, comes closer to doing so than just about any other nation of any significance around.

Which is a terribly depressing thought in light of Roe v. Wade (US, 1973) and other examples where the U.S. has fallen far short of the ideal.