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DateSaturday, September 3, 2011 at 11:27AM

From Roger Scruton, by way of Mirror of Justice:

Things become sacred when sacrifices on behalf of the community have been distilled in them, as the sacrifices of generations of soldiers, sailors and airmen are distilled in the American flag. And sacred things are invitations to sacrifice, as is the flag in time of war. Sacred things create bridges across generations: they tell us that the dead and the unborn are present among us, and that their “real presence” lives in each of us, and each of us in it. The decline of religion has deprived us of sacred things. But it has not deprived us of the need for them. Nor has it deprived us of the acute sense of desecration we feel, when facetious images intrude at the places once occupied by these visitors from the transcendental.

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They keep trying to force things into the God-shaped hole that are not of God, and then wonder why they are not satisfied. We were built for transcendence. Denying our need for it is denying our sense of self.

No wonder they're assholes.
September 3, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterChris
Chris,

I wish I actually knew you.

Scruton has a very dry wit. In a talk he gave that I heard in person he made some length remark about the depredations of modernity, all in very elegant English, and then said, "which is entirely the fault of the liberals..." It was at the University of Texas, and I believe he said it so charmingly that 2/3 of the audience laughed before they realized that they had been utterly insulted.
September 3, 2011 | Unregistered Commenterbbmoe
I take that as a compliment, rather than an opportunity to shoot me in the face.
September 4, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterChris

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