CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 27, 2021
ROSS DOUTHAT IS AS CLOSE AS THE NEW YORK TIMES GETS TO ANYTHING THAT MIGHT BE
CONSIDERED “RELIGIOUS.”
IN LAST SUNDAY’S COLUMN, DOUTHAT, WHO COMES FROM A CATHOLIC BACKGROUND, WROTE
SOMETHING WORTH PONDERING: SOCIAL CONSERVATISM, HE IS SAID, IS EBBING, AND “PROGRESSIVISM’S
CULTURAL DIOMINANCE” IS EXPANDING. “PROGRESSIVES ARE NOT QUITE IN THE CULTURAL POSITION
THAT CHRISTIAN CHURCHES ONCE OCCUPIED IN THIS COUNTRY, BUT THEY ARE CLOSE ENOUGH.”
HIS POINT WAS TO TRACE THE SEXUAL LIBERTINEISM THAT BEGAN IN THE 1960’S AND CONTINUES ITS
INFLUENCE ON MODERN CULTURE. IT APPEARS LITTLE CAN STOP ITS CONSEQUENCES – FROM BROKEN
HOMES, TO SHACKING UP, TO ABORTION AND PORNOGRAPHY, JUST TO NAME A FEW.
WHAT DID WE EXPECT? THE HEARTS OF EVEN MANY BELIEVERS HAVE GROWN COLD. PEOPLE BELIEVE
WHATEVER THEIR ITCHING EARS WANT TO HEAR. NATIONS ARE RISING AGAINST NATIONS. WEATHER
PATTERNS SEEM MORE SEVERE.
FROM DANIEL TO REVELATION AND IN BETWEEN THERE ARE WARNING SIGNS FROM PAUL, JOHN AND JESUS
HIMSELF AS TO WHAT THE END TIMES WILL LOOK LIKE. BUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT OF THIS WORLD.
I’M CAL THOMAS.
