You restated his argument nicely. The sophisticates abandoned Christianity more than a century ago, but totalitarian nationalism/racialism was available as an ideology to fill the "spiritual" gap. The two great wars discredited that. Then for many communism was their god. That too failed. All that is left is a kind of welfare stat-ism/ European-ism. All three have in common that the state replaces the church as the source of all value, However, the state has no values that fed the soul. The Christian must think of the moder state pretty much as the Muslim does, as something hollow and spiritually corrupt.
Ann is pretty abrasive most days but I think she’s mostly funny (and on point). In this event she went way overboard. I don’t care if people here don’t like hearing it, but Jews do not need to become Christians; they are quite fine on their own. There are too many self righteous finger pointers and frankly they are a bore.
And don’t give me any crappola about how this means I am willing to tolerate anything from anyone, or go into how I really don’t support the war, or haven’t noticed the abandonment of values in this country, or don’t understand what Christian values have done for us, etcetera. Save it. I didn’t tolerate uniformity of thought from the left; I’m not taking it from the right. And I’m not getting into a flame war with scripture to support what I feel about this. She was an idiot when she said what she did.