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Nancy McDermott's avatar

Again, spot on.

I share your frustration with Andrew Sullivan, and wish to take him out to the pub and bollock him repeatedly until he sees sense. I actually think he would.

I am thinking that there might be an institution that could go a long way to making things better. I think the family might be the institution we need. I mean one dedicated to socializing children, as opposed to just mindlessly validating them. But more on this when I’ve worked out how to explain what I mean more clearly.

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Susan Vonder Heide's avatar

I would argue that the only thing that will save us is not ourselves but God, with whom we need to cooperate. The mess that the world is in was made by people. When people have the hubris to think that God does not exist and that humans are the ultimate authority, we make a mess of things. This also happens when there is lip service to God but an ignoring of God's teachings (and we have seen plenty of that in church history right up to our present day). Fortunately, God is loving (as the story of the loving father in the parable of the Prodigal Son shows) and welcomes sinners who choose to turn to him. However, there is not endless time to do this, and one would rather hear "Well done, good and faithful servant" than "Depart from me for I never knew you" after we die.

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