That [a reasoned argument in defense of conjugal marriage] cannot be heard suggests that even for the most capacious “liberal” like Vallier, there is still an ideological core that rejects arguments against nominalism, contractarianism, individualism, and an acknowledgment of natural goods and limits. Those Christians and other religious believers who resist the spirit of the age will be persecuted – not by being thrown to lions in the Coliseum, but by judicial, administrative, and legal marginalization. They will lose many of the institutions that they built to help the poor, the marginalized, the weak, and the disinherited. But finding themselves in the new imperium will call out new forms of living the Christian witness. They will live in the favelas, providing care for body and soul that cannot not be provided by either the state or the market. Like the early Church, they will live in a distinct way from the way of the empire, and their way of life will draw those who perhaps didn’t realize that this was what Christianity was, all along. When the liberal ideology collapses – as it will – the Church will remain, the gates of Hell not prevailing against it. cato-unbound.org/2014/11/03/patrick-j-deneen/coming-persecution
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