It excommunicates the sacred in order to carve out a sacred space for the secular. It mocks the holy places and then makes a mecca of secular landscapes. It razes the monuments of faith and tradition while raising monuments to secularity. It scorns the saints and praises the scientist. It crumples up the creeds while planning its curriculum. It abandons the old doctrines while drafting its new declarations.
"The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it. The moderns believe without knowing what they believe—and without even knowing that they do believe it." — G.K. Chesterton
Socialism is the sanctity of human strife. It makes a religion of making life more difficult than it needs to be. It sings hymns to hemorrhaging and says its prayers to pillaging.
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