Our Time Is Unnervingly Radical

<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> “We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us… but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?”<span style= "mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> -JG Farrell</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">I would like my kid to go to a school where they paddle but I don't think that's a thing.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> It’s unnerving how many things lasted from Christ (or longer) until twelve minutes ago.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> The death penalty.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Spare the rod spoil the child.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Marriage being lifelong.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Marriage being exclusively hetero.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Swift criminal punishments.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Etc</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> "No doubt Christianity has much to answer for in its long history, but the sight of an age-long tradition treated in this way filled me with disgust. It is one thing for traditions to die out of themselves; it is quite another for them to be killed by men who think they know everything, by men whose vengeance extends even to the past, even to the dead." <span style= "mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–Theodore Dalrymple</p>