I did read and appreciate Chris Hedges' book on the decay of LIBERALISM . But Christianity has not been lacking " inside " critics for centuries . Some of them in despair saying that " the last Christian died on the cross ".
It is blindness for the social critics of capitalism and imperialism not to see that freedom of religion - along with the FREE SPEECH, FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization - is being attacked and mocked ON THE LEFT .
I happen to think that the pre-Vatican II Catholic Church had more " gravitas " and spiritual AUTHORITY than the present -definitely moribund - Catholic Church . The ABSOLUTE is worn out by too many corrections and footnotes and lugubrious APOLOGIA. Perhaps ONLY the Second Coming can save the Catholic Church . Saint Augustine, writing in the 4th century, had some eerie vision of THE LAST DAYS .
[ " To Augustine the Book of Revelation didn't depict, even allegorically, events that would unfold on Earth, but rather things that would take place in a more spiritual or metaphysical realm. His interpretation gained the upper hand and dominated Christian thinking about such matters. However the Reformation in the 16th century changed this state of affairs. " ]
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