Earlier this month, there was “a rave in the nave” at the Anglican Cathedral in Canterbury—instead of A Night at the Roxbury, it was A Night at the Canterbury. With the permission of the Very Rev. Dr. David Moneith, over 1,500 people came to the site of St. Thomas Becket’s martyrdom so that they could dance to club hits from the ‘90s. Despite a petition protesting the event and a large crowd of people praying outside of it, the crowd blithely danced to hits from the Spice Girls, Vengaboys, and Britney Spears. ...
Welcome the post-Christian West! The fumes of Christianity may linger, but the population at large has moved on to a distinctly different culture. Relativism now predominates in all spheres of life, where one man’s truth is another man’s falsehood, virtues and vices are interchangeable, and physical reality and spirituality are subordinate to virtual reality and mental health.
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