Dégénération

A Church article with View Comments posted 25 November 2008.
Tags: abortion, birth rate, critique, cultural suicide, economy, mother teresa

Via the First Things blog comes what they call an “edgy protest song – a protest against cultural suicide, that is.” I enjoyed the melody, and the words (though I don’t really know French, it was fun to pick out words I recognized) cut to the heart of what is a serious problem for the western world.

History is more like a hike through the foothills than climbing a mountain. With each step, rather than reaching ever increasing heights, we instead plod up and down well-worn paths.

On a related note, I think Mother Teresa’s amicus brief about Roe v. Wade is worth hearing as a part of the discussions on abortion, the birth rate, the economy, and the West, no matter which sides of the issues most hold your attention.