So I was shocked when Reno wrote a hit piece on Jonah and his new book. Wow. I go back longer with Jonah but Reno has the gigantic influence of being formed by Catholic Christian faith.
Reno comes off as unhinged though, sadly. Just makes it as personal and vituperative as possible. While Jonah’s book’s great fault lay in how he refuses to see the West’s soul infused by Christianity, and Reno’s left field rejoinder is histrionic and sympathetic to Woodrow Wilson and FDR. Jonah says a little nationalism is good, but it’s a jealous god and demands more and more.
John Zmirak opines on the clash of the titans and seeks a middle ground perhaps:
Catholic theocratic "Integralism" and soulless, ahistorical Liberalism are equally futile and destructive. The vital synthesis of English liberties and Christian resistance to intolerant governments is what forged America.
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Speaking of stars, the
morning prayer psalm that asks “oh stars of light, give praise to God!”
is more meaningful now that I have a more intimate relationship with the
stars thanks to the new transom in the sunroom. I see them now, and they feel more
real to me. It still kind of astounds me that Mars and Saturn, both so
far away, were so present on the southern horizon last night. They had both
seemed kind of abstract to me, pictures in astronomy books back in grade
school but now they’ve come alive and they seem like they’re only a mile or
two away. It’s funny how approachable the stars can be if one suspends
disbelief in the rational knowledge of their great distance. No wonder the
ancients were far more conversant with the stars given they probably didn’t
feel that far away to them as well.
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