[NYer]

Ping!

[Cicero]

Yes, an excellent article.

And I would like to take the opportunity to recommend Flannery O’Connor. She is, I think, the single best American writer since the Second World War, and that’s saying a lot.

Her novels, her short stories, her correspondence—it’s all very much worth reading. She was an extraordinarily powerful writer, and one of the few who escaped the deadening influences of modernism to write things that are spiritually brilliant.

[newheart]

I would not wish to be understood as implying that the respected American institutions I have named [The New York Times, the United States Supreme Court, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization of Women] are similar or corresponding to pre-Nazi institutions.

I suspect that today Mr. Percy would, in fact, wish to be understood as implying that those institutions are corresponding to pre-Nazi institutions.

(It is a good day when both Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor are both mentioned on FreeRepublic.)

[wintertime]

Hope this author isn't surprised that we have the culture we do.

If children attend government schools that teach a lukewarm and generic Protestant worldview, they risk learning to be lukewarm and generic in their Christian faith. And...This is, indeed, the religious worldview taught in government schools prior to the 1960s.

Today's government school that are godless in their worldview, ( and all government owned and run K-12 schools are), they **will** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the godless classroom, read the godless textbooks, and conform to the godless school policies.

I fear for our nation. With spiritual foundations such as this, our population is at extreme risk of succumbing to the push and pull of the beguiling siren call of Marxism and will not have the spiritual depth or energy to confront Islam.

By the way, what does Christ do with the lukewarm? Answer: He spits them out of His mouth!

[Zionist Conspirator]

One of Wood’s main theses is that O’Connor--the novelist, short story writer, and devout Catholic--preferred the excesses of fundamentalism, which at least takes God seriously enough to take him literally, to the bland “civil religion” practiced by most Americans, including most Catholics.

Why is it that Catholics don't seem capable of giving Fundamentalists any kind of compliment but a left-handed one?