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I rarely re-read novels because I can usually remember the entire plot within the first few pages even after twenty years. This goes double and triple for editorial comment which is usually banal and repetitive.

Yet here is a repeated Steyn column which is not only just as insightful as it was a year ago, but still has the biting humor it did a year ago.

The Bible says we reap what we sow. These are some of the most frightening words in the Bible. The liberal culture of death has been advocating abortion for thirty years and now they are falling out of power due to lack of supporters. Even if you disbelieve in God, this seems to be a just outcome.

They turn upon their own like wolves cannibalizing their firstborn... they turn away from God because of self-anointed rationality & intellect, then lemming-like kneel before their god-like government... they clamor for higher taxes to save the children, then remain mute on the killing of innocents...

the way of the dhimmicrats is the path of death.

What worries me most is that there is so little serious Christianity in Britain and Europe. It is literally "lukewarm" as Jesus rebuked the Laodicean church in Revelation 3:16, and literally affirmed by a famous British-origin conservative Andrew Stuttaford:

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/05_03_20_corner-archive.asp#059240

"...The Brits, by contrast, have long been more secular than their cousins across the Atlantic, and have a tradition of suspicion of those who are too enthusiastic in professing their religious belief (Blair’s open religiosity undoubtedly costs him votes). There are any number of reasons for this, but a good place to start would the country’s experience during the 1640s civil war and its aftermath, but now is not the time to go into that. Suffice it to say that British conservatives are thus less interested in the specific teachings of the church than the role that it can play a maintaining a reasonably decent, adequately functioning, tolerably orderly society. Actual ‘belief’ was not, and is not, required of Conservatives. Winston Churchill explained that he was not a “pillar” of the Church of England, but a “buttress”: he supported it from outside. That seems to me to be an entirely sensible point of view...."

Now, if even most conservatives are this lukewarm to genuine Christianity, can anyone go and wonder what the attitude would be once he explores the wasteland that is the British Left?