Whining Their Way Through the Culture War

The amazing thing about a completely biased media is that it reaches a point where reason, convincing arguments, and logic are all unnecessary. It repeats its glittering generalities and mantras enough times, and people stop thinking for themselves. As Dostoevsky so aptly phrased, "We like getting by on other people’s reason--we’ve acquired a taste for it!"

On the flip side, whenever a political or religious leader, celebrity, or a group of independent thinkers comes along with ideas that contradict or question the mantras we've all been trained to parrot, the media responds with horror and disgust.

A sadly poignant example is Pope Benedict's recent trip to Africa. While there, he condemned the racial and political movements that have oppressed freedom. He called Africa the land of hope and praised them for their religious fervor in a largely apathetic world. He also mentioned that abstinence was a more effective AIDs prevention tool than any number of responsibility-erasing condoms . . . and then there was wailing and gnashing of journalistic teeth.

When will they learn to address issues instead of generically crying "corrupter of the youth!," as the sophist Athenians did thousands of years ago to Socrates? When will people refuse to let these modern sophists rhetorically beg the question by whining about someone's audacity to contradict research we "all know" to be indubitably true? No longer can the rational members of society stand by while these media monologuers whine their way through the battles of the culture war. Those who dare to contradict the "p.c." voices need to do so with good arguments, statistics, and prayer.

Thank the Lord that we have a true leader in Pope Benedict, who seeks out ways to encourage nations to better themselves in areas of character as well as in the realms of physical and economic health. And if we ever get the guts to speak out, he may not stand alone; then, our country may again be the land of the free, instead of the land of the nodding couch-potatoes.

http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/articles.cfm?id=309