Quotes 25 Apr 17

The world hates the family. The state is the family’s enemy. The state grows by the family’s failure and the state has an interest in persuading people that the family can do nothing on its own. It hates fatherhood, and makes little pretense otherwise. It hates motherhood, though it makes a show of championing the unwed mother as well as the mother, who, as the ugly phrase puts it, “has it all,” though a moment’s reflection should suffice to show that no one can give his or her career to a career and a family and the local community. - Anthony Esolen, Out of the Ashes, 2017

“ We in the modern West are living under barbarism, though we do not recognise it. Our scientists, our judges, or princes, our scholars, and our scribes – they are at work demolishing the faith, the family, gender, even what it means to be human. Our barbarians have exchanged the animal pelts and spears of the past for designer suits and smart phones.”- Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option. p.17.

“Freud’s answer was to replace religion with psychology. In his therapeutic vision, we should stop the fruitless searching for a non-existent source of meaning and instead seek self-fulfillment. The pursuit of happiness was not a quest for unity with God, or sacrificial dedication to a cause greater than oneself rather a search to satisfy the Self” - Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option.p.41

“ For a Christian, there is only one right way to use the gift of sex: within marriage between one man and one woman. This is heresy to the modern world, and a hard saying upon which hearts, friendships, families, and even churches have been broken. There is no core teaching of the Christian faith that is less popular today, and perhaps none more important to obey.”- Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option P.196

We need digitally fast as an ascetic practice, take smartphones away from kids, keep social media out of worship, do things with our hands and question ‘Progress’. David Robertson reviewing -od Dreher, The Benedict Option in The Wee Flea