If It’s not the Apocalypse

Let’s begin with a simple point, so simple that many otherwise intelligent people deny it. Any country – however many and great its virtues – that sacrifices 1 million children yearly to demonic idols (under fashionable euphemisms like “reproductive health”), deserves, if Scripture and right reason are to be believed, chastisement.

Or if the Biblical term is too strong for us today, call it: nemesis, karma, cosmic justice.

That’s us now.

With perhaps even worse to come, over time, given that the Republicans have dropped their longstanding call for a national abortion ban.

But our situation is serious, so let us not just react but reflect.

This week, the Faith and Reason Institute is holding the Twenty-Fourth Free Society Seminar in the Slovak Republic, a yearly event for American and European university students and young professionals founded by the late Michael Novak. We discuss the things – political, economic, moral/cultural (in Novak’s tripartite scheme) – needed for a society that is both free and good.

Classic questions, but sometimes something surprising turns up.

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