Wow… has Pat been reading the Witness? W.H. Che…

W.H. Chellis

Wow… has Pat been reading the Witness?

W.H. Chellis

Ok he might not have recieved his copy but… did anyone catch Pat Buchanan’s editorial Brave New World http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50472 yesterday?

Pat writes:

“Writing in that fateful year, 1939, T.S. Eliot, intellectual and Christian, admonished his contemporaries who had placed their faith in the triumph of democracy. Democracy is not enough, Eliot wrote. ‘As political philosophy derives its sanction from ethics, and ethics from the truth of religion, it is only by returning to the eternal source of truth that we can hope for any social organization which will not, to its ultimate destruction, ignore some essential aspect of reality. The term ‘democracy,’ as I have said again and again, does not contain enough positive content to stand alone against the forces you dislike – it can easily be transformed by them. If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler and Stalin.”

He concludes:

“If one rejects Christianity, and the morality and ethics that proceed from it, on what ground does one stand to outlaw drugs, prostitution, euthanasia, assisted suicide and sex with children or dogs? Holland today, and America – with its toll of aborted babies now nearing the 50 million mark since Roe v. Wade – raise profound questions for conservatives and traditionalists. What if the free society chooses to become a decadent and depraved society? Do we still owe it allegiance and loyalty? Does a community have the right to impose its values, if those values are rooted in religion, on a minority that disbelieves in those values? We certainly did that during the civil rights era of the 1960s. At what point does a regime, even if democratically elected, become illegitimate, as surely Hitler’s was by the time Eliot wrote? ‘What makes you think the West is worth saving?’ the priest asked Whittaker Chambers when he visited him in that hospital room in the 1950s. Good question then. Better question now. Perhaps the Muslims, who may well be a majority in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague in 10 years, will moot the issue for us all.”

Does anyone remember the chant, “go, Pat, go”?