day no. 17,319: apostasy and liberty

"Religious liberty was a development that grew up out of the Protestant West. It is our baby. We invented it. So people shouldn’t talk as though a decided Protestant culture is the enemy of such liberty . . . it is the historic foundation for it. So a Protestant approach to religious liberty will preserve the maximum amount of religious liberty, including for Catholics, while an absolutist and blind embrace of the idol 'religious liberty' will destroy religious liberty. We must have fences; we must have form and freedom together. Christ can provide that, while the Void provides nothing." — Douglas Wilson, Virgin Mary Parades in a Free Republic

We live in a time where people utilize their freedom of speech to deride the thing that gave them that freedom. That is permissible, but it is foolish. They should be allowed to be stupid, but their stupidity should not go unchallenged. You can make an idol out of the second commandment just as you can make one out of the first amendment. There is a way to use a regulation to cause irregularities. There is a way to use freedom to restrict freedom. 

Freedom of conscience and freedom of speech are not secular values. Time and chance acting on matter do not produce "diversity is our strength." Only apostasy can create such a thing. The secular West is merely the apostate West. It is like the prodigal son spending all its inheritance on worthless things. It has money in the bank because of where and when it was born, but it can only waste its inheritance on loose living. It cannot build any capital that way. It will have nothing to pass along, even the freedom of speech and conscience that it has enjoyed will be taken from its children if it does not come to it senses in the midst of the pig slop.

Unless the West returns to Christ, it will starve to death.

John 6:35

And Jesus said unto them, "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.”