Dr. Tom Williams

St.

Thomas Aquinas speaks about that.

He says, the same way you love your parents,

you love your country because your country gave birth to you.

He speaks of the word piety in terms of loving your country, this piety toward your country, all these different virtues and values that were part and parcel of the Christian tradition, which are now vanishing.

They're evaporating before our very eyes in a very

hostile mentality, one that is anti-Christian, is post-Christian.

And for a while, I think we were sort of content to live in this post-Christian kind of miasma situation, where, yes, we kind of know where we came from, but even if we get rid of those roots, we can still live off the benefits of those basic beliefs.

But now it's more and more hostile.

They want to reinvent the founding of the nation.

They want to reinvent the principles.

They want to negate the good.

and make it look like everything grew out of evil, and that everything needs to be restarted in a new name.

I think it's a very, very evil and extremely dangerous project, the one that is coming now in what is not just the post-Christian West, but is becoming more and more the anti-Christian West, where Christianity is looked upon as the enemy, where Christians are looked upon

as obstacles to progress, as people who, as one author likes to call it, are stuck in the Bronze Age with this Bronze Age Bible of myths and stories, this very dangerous attachment to an obscurantist past, and not allowing this radical secularist agenda to unfold.

And that's the kind of battle that we're headed for right now.

The Roman Empire was all about assimilation.

It was a very tolerant state as far as it goes, in the sense that as long as you can integrate your beliefs, your belief system, your religion into assimilation,

this greater pluralist Roman society, as long as you're willing also to sacrifice to the emperor and to burn incense to the emperor, as long as this is part of it, you can have your little cults and your rituals and your diverse things.

We're very open-minded.