The Record of Secular Liberalism

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I was bemused to hear a Christian friend claiming that "the record of liberalism is very good." Well, good in the sense of "gain the world and lose your soul," I guess.

Here's is a Christian who understood the real record of liberalism:

"The poison West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. however far you when you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empties thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshiping the iron works of their own hands, cut off Earth their mother and from the Father in Heaven." -- C.S. Lewis, That Hideuous Strength

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  1. Lord11:50 PM

    No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

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  2. Samson Corwell11:42 PM

    I get a feeling that many leftists may think the same thing.

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