Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture... American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.
Ilana MercerThe nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.
Ilana MercerIn a free society, the โvision thingโ is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a โvisionaryโ bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.
Ilana MercerLiberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.
Ilana Mercer