“Intelligent revolutionaries are always most interested in the young,” warns Hitchens. “They know that the ideas and characters of mature adults are generally fully formed and cannot easily be changed, though they can be expensively and painfully terrified, suborned, and cajoled into acting against those ideas.”
Was it a coincidence that Red Russia raged against the private school system? Or that our extreme Greens and Gillard seek to undermine school choices here, for example? “Religion,” by way of contrast, “is most generally introduced to children, not by the state but by their own parents, who love them and believe that faith will benefit them.”
Long ago, in the Early Christian Painting period, Rome’s God-believing artists used secret symbols to save adherents from persecution. Mark was represented as a lion; John by an eagle, and, of course, Jesus is still known as the good shepherd. Awe-inspiring fresco paintings brightened the walls of underground passages, or catacombs.
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Yet, in 2010, Christianity is being pushed underground. Thanks to “multiculturalism”, books by uncelebrated believers, like Peter, are shunned.
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