Douglas Wilson

It's which Theo is the god of the system.

It's not whether but which.

So you're exactly right.

We have an established church.

I could go downtown in any major American city and get arrested within 15 minutes on the basis of what I was saying alone.

Okay.

And they wouldn't call it blasphemy laws.

But they call it hate crimes or whatever.

But it functions as a blasphemy law.

All societies that cohere have restrictions on things you can say or not say.

And because of a shared consensus, nobody thinks of it as censorship.

Alle akzeptieren nur, dass das nicht fertig ist.

Und wenn ein Ausländer es macht, dann wissen sie, wie sie sich auf dich kratzen.

Wenn dann jemand kommt und eine christliche Republik erwischt, bei der die Standards für die Entschädigung unterschiedliche Standards sind, aber du tust das gleiche.

Du schützt ein anderes Zentrum.

Aber alle Gesellschaften schützen ihr Zentrum.

So the thesis is one of the things that has gotten me into trouble is that I've spoken with the less than perfect tenderness towards some of our secular pieties.

Right.

And sometimes the language I've used has been pretty rough.

All right.