"This is modernity's barbarism - hollow hearts led about by sterile matter, perversely mocking those with full lives." - Douglas Wilson, Angels in the Architecture
Modernity is heartless and fruitless. It prefers skepticism to faith and stainless steel appliances to plastic children's toys. It has no room for marital fidelity or fecundity. Yet, those medieval souls who orient their homes around love making, laughter and the joy of the Lord find them overflowing: full bellies, full hearts, full rooms, full lives.
Nehemiah 8:10
Eat the fat, and drink the sweet...
for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
Modernity prefers fat-free dying to full fat living. It opts for sugar-free death over the sweet life. It prides itself on the serious business of saving the planet rather than the joyful business of the Savior of the world.
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