Michael Knowles

And some people like that.

I'm not even knocking your tastes or your preferences.

I'm just pointing out, man, because we're embodied creatures, we're liturgical creatures.

We're creatures of habit.

We do things with our bodies and we do things in patterns and we do things in cycles and in habits.

And so liturgical religion is going to speak to that.

We've neglected our physicality for so long.

You saw that peak, I think, during the transgender moment where we said our bodies have nothing to do with who we really are.

And I think it's no coincidence that that year was the turning point.

And after that madness had passed, you saw a huge tick up, specifically in liturgical religion.

And then the other reason is that subjectivism is exhausted.

We've been quoting a lot of popes today.

Pope Benedict XVI talked about the poison of subjectivism, this tyranny of subjectivism that had overtaken the West.

where we don't really know if anything's true or false.

And it doesn't just go back to the 1960s.

It goes back much earlier.

Really, it goes back to Descartes, Rene Descartes, who said, I think therefore I am.

And what he concluded was that the only thing that we can really know for certain is that we think things.

In other words, the only certain knowledge that we have is what's banging around in our own head that we don't necessarily know.

interact with reality as such.