A Lesson Not Yet Learned
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🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to blog and May blog from Doug Wills.com. |
| 0:07.0 | This audio is brought to you by, Cannon Press. A Lesson not yet learned, Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 by Douglas Wilson. |
| 0:26.7 | Introduction |
| 0:29.5 | Today marks the 18th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, and it is not quite accurate to say that everything |
| 0:36.2 | has changed. It would be more of the point to say that everything is still changing. |
| 0:42.0 | One of the basic things still in flux is that Americans are yet trying |
| 0:46.1 | to find a fixed center where they can get some traction. The previously assumed |
| 0:51.3 | center, the tenants of a Secular Liberal Order have been found badly wanting. |
| 0:57.0 | It turns out that great civilizations require a transcendental foundation. |
| 1:02.6 | And if they don't have one, then they are like the great house that Jesus talked about |
| 1:07.1 | that was built on sand. |
| 1:08.6 | The curb appeal looks really great until the storm comes. |
| 1:14.0 | Not to be tedious about it. |
| 1:18.0 | A few days ago I responded to the recent debate between David French and Sorobamari. |
| 1:24.0 | In that response I pointed out that viewpoint neutrality is not a thing, |
| 1:29.0 | and that it cannot even be a thing. |
| 1:32.0 | The arguments laid out in that piece have been rejected but not answered. |
| 1:35.9 | I would point out with my customary mildness that rejecting and answering are two different |
| 1:41.6 | verbs. |
| 1:43.4 | There have been various responses, but one response of note was from Brian Mattson on Twitter. |
| 1:49.3 | Quote, Shorter Post-Libs and Doug Wilson. |
| 1:53.0 | The liberal order is the fruit of Christianity. |
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