Recovering Our Roots—August 2010
perspective
Looking Backwards
by Thomas Fleming
views
Authentic Communities
by Claude Polin
Where the Demons Dwell: The Antichrist Right
by Jerry D. Salyer
news
California Ecclesiazusae
by John C. Seiler, Jr.
reviews
The Creaturely Myth
by James O. Tate
[Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight]
The Path to Modernity
by Srdja Trifkovic
[Peter H. Wilson, The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy]
Sympathetic Magic
by Derek Turner
[Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America]
Falling Apart
by H.A. Scott Trask
[Brian Hart, Then Came the Evening]
correspondence
How Aussies Lost Their Pride of Erin
by R.J. Stove
Bear
by John Willson
vital signs
Atomic Anniversary
by Allen Mendenhall
That Election
by Christopher Sandford
Driving Home Their Point
by R. Cort Kirkwood
columns
Between the Lines
by Justin Raimondo
What’s Right With the World
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
Heresies
by Aaron D. Wolf
The Rockford Files
by Scott P. Richert
European Diary
by Andrei Navrozov
In the Dark
Breathless
by George McCartney
Under the Black Flag
by Taki Theodoracopulos
poetry
“The Great Cane Duel” and
“For Donald Justice”
by Larry Johnson
Polemics & Exchanges
American Proscenium
Cultural Revolutions
Entries(RSS)
I am confused by Chilton Williamson's assertion that it would be a "dubious assumption" to think that the "happy few" and the remaining believers at the time of the Second Coming could be one and the same. ("The Happy Few", August Chronicles)
In the same paragraph he says that a "civilized person [i.e., one of the happy few] is someone who ... knowing the world both overall and in relation to its elements, has learned how to discriminate in the finest degree among those elements and make the best of them his own..."
Is Mr. Williamson saying that belief in God is not one of this world's "best" elements; or that the remaining believers are not likely to have descried the best of the religious traditions; or that they may simply be unable or unwilling to discriminate?