Tuesday, February 13, 2007
What exactly is our way of life anyway?
This comes to mind because conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza says that the radical Muslims don't like us for our coarse and pornographic anti-life culture. Leaving aside for the moment how could flying planes into buildings be considered pro-life D'Souza has touched a nerve with other "conservatives" tired of the culture wars, people like Victor Davis Hanson who calls it "one righty writer's terror tantrum." So how does one define our "way of life"? Are our soldiers dying in Iraq to protect legal abortion and hardcore porn? I myself would like to think they're giving up their lives to protect the nobler aspects of the American democratic experiment. Be that as it may why can't we just say Dinesh has the God-given American right to think out loud and leave it at that. Myself? I had a very bad day at work today.
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Sorry to hear you had a bad day at work. Good blog today, very thought provoking. What kind of country is one willing to die for? How do we want to define ourselves as a nation? Yes we are free, but that also means free to be stupid and wasteful as much as we are free to be charitable and responsible.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, you gotta take the good with the bad. Unfortunate, but true.
ReplyDeleteI'd hate to think we are going to war though so people in the Middle East can be more like us and watch their Jenna Jameson and have their unborn children dismembered. Sorry, there has to be more, much more than this.
ReplyDeleteThat is why we also need to win the Culture War my friend.
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