The heavily pierced and self-consciously lumpen hoards mocking the nativity should remind us that when reason is liberated entirely from tradition it becomes something rancorous, hubristic, and irrational. And it is the transcendent quality of tradition that places proper limits on the aspirations of reason. Leskek Kolakowski had this in mind when he wrote, “… culture when it loses its sacred sense, loses all sense.” And so we are left this Christmas season to endure patiently the obscurantist complaints about “religion in the public sector” that are disgorged like beer-soaked flatulence from the mouths of secularist elites who remain committed to building a society in which all things are possible and nothing is true.
And so we pray for the gift of forbearance …
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