mdavid writes in response to Rod Dreher's post on Christmas at the White House -- No room for Jesus at the P.C. White House:

Enjoyed this post.

Chuckled reading this thread.

Reflection: modern secular Americans are probably the dumbest folk in human history, and know nothing about the human condition and themselves, the naked ape. They really, truly believe that mankind can somehow be "trained" to the effect that:

1) symbols, visual unity for a tribe, suddenly don't matter anymore
2) humans are indifferent to culture, and have suddenly evolved into godlike, isolated individuals
3) cultural unity can be had without cultural norms
4) cultural differences can coexist without a dominate host culture to hold it all together

The whole idea that America - a Balkanization of Europeans not long removed from a unified Catholic culture with a church at the center of every town - can somehow "come together", make one of many, and even thrive, was a longshot that worked for a time. Yet it works only as long as the immigrants have a general moral and cultural unity as their bedrock. Otherwise, it's a joke, and falls apart into grasping mobs looting the treasury. Welcome to USA post-1960.

It has taken a some decades to expend our remaining cultural capital. The next few decades, however, will wipe away any remaining fantasy that the American experiment can somehow survive within a secular, disunified culture. Brace for a wild ride, as this vacuum of culture must be filled with something, probably some variation of authoritarianism. Lots of little cultural groups sprouting up in self-defense, sealing our fate.

But in the meantime, worrying about the arrangement of deck chairs on our sinking Titanic (Christmas trees at Obama's? Really?) is pretty dang amusing. Pass the popcorn; the show must go on, and it will get far more interesting when the shock of icy cold water finally hits home for the average wide-eyed liberal. We are living in interesting times, and at least we can get a good laugh on the way down.

Is the real America so divided as it is on certain blogs that try to foster some sort of broad "discussion" on religion, morals, and culture among Americans of all backgrounds? If I had to live with some of the people inhabiting this part of the blogosphere, I'm not sure if I could. I'd probably want to go somewhere else, given how committed they are to secularism and their own particular world-view in which God does not have the highest place.