Moon Griffon had an interesting monologue on Thursday morning (18 Sept. 2025).  He was making the case for the kind of Enlightenment/classical liberal society that has existed in the States since they became free countries following their War for Independence with Great Britain, where individual liberties are the summum bonum, the highest good, of the society in question.

In this kind of society, he said, if one wants to mutilate his sex organs and transition to another gender, he is free to do so.  If one wants to not believe in God, he may do so.  And so on like that.

But, he conditioned all of this with one moral absolute:  One does not have the right to use violence against those who disagree with him.

There is a tremendous contradiction in this moral universe.  If one is free not to believe in and worship the Christian God, then one is also necessarily free not to obey the commands that the Holy Trinity has given mankind to follow.  And if that is so, then one is free from the command not to harm or murder his fellow man.

Thus, Christian morality is overthrown in the Enlightenment/classical liberal society for the sake of individual liberties.

Many, many people on the Right in the US are proclaiming that the murder of Charlie Kirk is a tipping point:  The States cannot go on like they have been; something has got to change; Christianity must be given more prominence in our public life – not merely in our private, individual lives.

They are right.  But for that to happen we must reorder our hierarchy of values.  Individual rights disconnected from Christianity can no longer be at the top of the ladder.  Union of all our people with Christ in His Church must occupy that spot.  There are models of this kind of ‘illiberal democracy’ in recent years – Hungary, Greece, Ireland, and some others – whose fundamental laws make explicit reference to Christ, the All-Holy Trinity, and Christianity.

Freedom is a wonderful thing.  We would rather live in a place like the South than a totalitarian basketcase like North Korea or the UK.  But the nature of that freedom is crucial.  We have seen where the humanistic, Enlightenment version of freedom has led us:  to the murder of Christian students in Tennessee in 2024 and in Minnesota in 2025, and now to the murder of Charlie Kirk in Utah, which is weighing so heavily on nearly everyone’s heart at the moment.

Freedom in Christ must be our goal now.  It has produced the most monumental achievements in human history in centuries past.  If we are wise, we will pursue it – every part of society:  families, arts, sports, schools, government, businesses, etc.  If we are unwise and reject it, we will continue to reap the whirlwind.