Just thought I’d highlight that it’s Christianity they take issue with. Very perceptive. And yes, I’d have to agree.
I wonder what happens when some of these starry-eyed young liberals raised by their starry-eyed liberal elders grow up hating Christianity and realizing that Sharia law would do much worse. Will they wonder why gays in Moslem countries weren’t important enough to fight for? Will they feel lied to when they realize it’s really about destroying Christianity and morals, not about protecting rights around the world?
There’s a darker view one might take. I’m reminded of an old fable that goes like this:
"The jaded citizens of Alexandria awoke one morning to see that their city had been surrounded by bloodthirsty Huns. Such was the reputation of the Huns that the citizens knew if they took the city, a bloodbath would ensue. They stood at the walls during the siege and shivered with horror at the prospect.
Then one day, inexplicably, the Huns simply moved off. The city was safe. But the citizens were disappointed that there was no catastrophic denoument with the Huns.
It would have been better than nothing."
One is sometimes put to wonder whether jaded westerners would not, someday, welcome the lash of Sharia; the certitude, the opportunity to chastise one’s neighbors, the delightful exercises in cruelty one could, with smug satisfaction, watch…at least until it was one’s own turn.
We have seen that kind of thing in not-too-distant history. If one reads the history of the Gulags, particularly as described by Solzhenitsyn, one realizes that populations become depraved more quickly than one would suppose once time-honored codes and mores are swept away and despised, and are replaced by a wolfish system. Many are victimized, but many are rewarded. And for some, even perhaps for most, the reward is nothing more than the elevation one feels in seeing others brought down.
I think there’s still time, but it’s getting disturbingly close to midnight.
