...That argument is as good today as it was in 13th-century France. But in order to make it, conservatives would also have to take a stand against divorce, pornography, and possibly even contraception. That would be hugely unpopular, even with most Christians, which is why they didn’t do it. Instead, they muttered something about men marrying dogs and then breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court rendered the whole thing moot. 

The point is that the Christian princes were right. Chastity is worth promoting, because unchastity is a threat, not only to ourselves and our neighbors, but to the entire social order. But that means we can’t just blame the “destruction of the family” on the Democrats, or the LGBT lobby, or even the Sexual Revolution. A little bit of the blame lies with everyone who’s taken advantage of our new “permissive society.” It’s also my fault. And it’s probably yours, too. 

BY Michael Warren Davis

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Some call this “escapist.” Really, I think it is the political men who are the escapists. Just one more podcast, one more op-ed, one more conference…One more meme, one more Facebook post, one more Twitter brawl…One more election…Then everything will be put right.

Sorry, but it doesn’t work that way. You have to put it right, and start by putting yourself right. That’s the message of the Inklings. It’s not escapism: it’s Christian realism. It doesn’t ask us to stick our head in the sand, but in the clouds. After all, as Lewis says,

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark on Earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth “thrown in”: aim at earth and you will get neither.

Around the year A.D. 33, Roman authorities executed a Jewish preacher. Three centuries later, the Emperor officially declared Him to be the Incarnate God. Today, about one of every four human beings worship that preacher. Yet we say religion is impractical, and then buy a Tesla. That must be the devil’s greatest trick. 

Michael Warren Davis is the author of The Reactionary Mind (Regnery, 2021) and The Times Are Wretched (Sophia Institute Press, 2024). Subscribe to his newsletter, “The Common Man,” on Substack.

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