If one has read Walker Percy, the rising tide of anti-Semitism is no surprise - just the first overt consequences of a culture of death fostered by modern secular leftism. From Percy’s “Thanatos Syndrome” (1987), in which Father Smith, a failed, somewhat addled priest is speaking to an old friend, Dr. Thomas More:
“You are a member of the first generation of doctors in the history of medicine to turn their backs on the oath of Hippocrates and kill millions of old useless people, unborn children, born malformed children, for the good of mankind - and to do so without a single murmur from one of you. . . . Do you know what is going to happen to you?”
” . . . ‘Oh’, he said absently, appearing to be thinking of something else ‘you’re going to end up killing Jews’ “
I read that book in my undergrad days; the quote that stands the most s the rest of Father Smith’s conversation with Dr. Moore: “Tenderness leads to the gas chamber. Tenderness is the first guise of the murderer.”
When love is not rooted in God, it leads to murder.