Dr. J. Budziszewski
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But he said, but people are not that logical.
And my view is they are that logical, but they're logical slowly.
A conclusion that follows from the premises that they may not embrace in generation one, they may embrace in generation two.
I don't know.
It's good that there is some pushback.
It's good that there is a counter-apologetic.
It's good, for instance, among Catholics, and this is true of many thinking evangelical Protestants and others, that there is not just a
an assumption that this is a Christian culture any longer.
Very few people still say that.
Very few thinking people still say that.
Very few thinking people still assume that you can trust the public schools to raise your children in a Christian view of the world.
There's a realization that we're confronted with an entire
world system an entire philosophy an entire or a set of allied philosophies an entire set of ways of thinking that are diametrically opposed to our faith and they're not just different they're virulent and that we have to mount a real attack now the biggest problem really is is we may say oh yeah that is loony but it's just silly and those people are grifters anyway
you know well a lot of the grifters are pretty serious about their own grift and um some of that silly silliness has lethal consequences mutilating children for instance in the name of affirming them and uh and i that's sex again but there are lunacies about other things i talk about a belief in god about the nature of reality about politics about about virtue and all kinds of things but or or maybe we do this we say
Well, yeah, that's horrible, but it's no skin off my nose if they want to be crazy.
I'm sorry, it's coming for you and it's coming for your children.
Or I just don't want to get involved because I might lose my job.
Now, that's really true.
That's one of the reasons why the pushback, this is another area of pushback in some of these aggressive mind control programs in corporations and at universities has been so important.
How do you still have a job at a university in Austin?