How sad …

… The Most Anti-Christian Country on Earth | John Waters | First Things. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist sensitivities offer merely a rhetorical shield in the crusade to create conditions in which no religious beliefs will be tolerated. Such interventions invite not “pluralism” and “tolerance,” but the banishment from the public arena of any form of absolute certitude about the meaning of the mysteries that define humanity. What is elevated, implicitly, is the non-engagement of the self-styled “non-believer,” as though this was a neutral position rather than one seeking to impose its ennui and pessimism on everyone.