“For the unbeliever faith remains a temptation and a threat to his apparently permanently closed world. In short, there is no escape from the dilemma of being a man. … It is not until belief is rejected that its unrejectability becomes evident.” Benedict XVI, Intro to Xtianity.

One good place to start if you want to understand how modern secularism is in fact largely just bad medieval theology (voluntarism and nominalism)

I don’t have well-developed views on WWII. I find history interesting, but extremely complex. Certainly not determinative re correct strategy today. But the hysteria when certain narratives are questioned tells me many people see aspects as closer to sacred dogma.

Gm

CS Lewis couldn’t stand literary jargon. He’d often write “be so good as to translate into plain English” on student essays. He expected his pupils to submit work entirely their own and was merciless when they didn’t acknowledge their sources. High standards made him great.

Read it. It’s excellent work.

“We cannot help but judge the past by our present ethics. We can make sure, however, that our present ethics are informed by a sensitivity to human limits and frailty and by a historical imagination that enables us to enter sympathetically into the moral constraints and demands

The answer is: Yes.

World War III will be all people everywhere fighting about WWII inside your head.

The loss of metaphysical realism has been a disaster for the human race.

Another way of putting it: modern man is in the predicament of enjoying fruit from a tree he both hates and thinks is nonexistent.

Another zero sum fallacy. When you win, it doesn’t mean others necessarily lose. Your fulfilment may be a gift to others. Your desire to enrich your kids will enrich others around them. Be the best human being you can be, teach your children well, let people enjoy good things.

“The primary things in the universe, before all letters and all language, are a note of exclamation and a note of interrogation. The very shapes of them are startlingly symbolic; the first straight and simple, the second crooked and looking like a sneer. The note of admiration is

Good thing we’re not on Mars. I would hate for this glorious messy marvelous terrifying beautiful world we live inside to appear so small and so far away.

Blessed are the subtle for they shall inherit the mirth.

This is true.

Satan was the first bureaucrat.