David Freddoso’s been a great new addition to the whacky gang at the Corner:
I’d also point to pre-war Europe, whose loss of religious faith (it’s not like it started in 1960 — try 1660) had ghastly ideological consequences — Communism, German National Socialism — that led to countless deaths.
Basically, the decline in religious fanaticism represented by the English Restoration in 1660 and the end of Oliver Cromwell’s theocratic regime led directly to Nazism.
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