Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 3.

Hello, America. It is Eric Erickson here. Delighted to be with you. The phone number 877-977-9-73-7-4-25, if you want to be on the program.

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Now, we're going to go down the rabbit hole here a little bit because this is kind of bizarre.

It was Gertrude Himmelfar, by belief, who said that we are reaching the age where deviancy is

considered normal and normal is considered deviant.

There was the Chesterton quote. Let me see if I can find it that was used by the new

Italian prime minister that there was swords will be drawn in defense of the trees being green

in the summer. It is this quote and I think it's very good and this is our starting point here.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant they are disputed.

Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

And the skepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates

them, gives them their limits and their plain and defiant shape.

We who are liberals once held liberalism lightly as a truism.

Now it has been disputed and we hold it fiercely as a faith.

We who believe in patriotism once thought patriotism to be reasonable and thought little more about

it. Now we know it to be unreasonable and know it to be right. We who are Christians never knew

the great philosophic common sense, which

inheres in the mystery until the anti-Christian writers pointed it out to us.

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