How Intellectual Stupidity & Moral Cowardice Trashed the Culture

"But, we don't want to be known for what we're against!"

I’ve heard this expression used numerous times as a reason for people to stay silent in the face of evil.

I’ve heard preachers say it from pulpits, and receive applause as if they have just said something profound.

I’ve heard friends say it over coffee, and then pause as if it was a drop the mic moment.

Good people will privately express dismay at what is being done to the culture, but they will never speak publicly against it for fear of being thought ‘negative’.

“We don’t want to be known for what we are against,” is their defence for remaining mute as the culture is trashed all around them.

“We want to be known for what we are for,” they insist.

It sounds virtuous. It is not.

It is worse than disingenuous, it is an inversion of the truth.

The left don’t promote a ‘positive vision’ of the future. Far from it. The entire progressive project is rooted in rebellion against what the left see as the oppression of the natural order …