It's practically impossible to "defend our values" with words alone.

Our enemies never listen to 'words alone', is the thing.

The mass majority of the reason the Enlightenment won out was because it just flat-out ignored everyone who was against it.

My father was irreligious, even though he had seen dæmons before

His Christian friend in high school invited him, the English debate team captain and science club president, to take part in a debate event at church

And assigned him to argue against the existence of God

My father read Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, et al.

But of course he also had to read the Bible

And he read all of it

The word of God changed him, and by the time the debate began he already believed Jesus of Nazareth was the Lord of the worlds

He still won the debate, but only with what he knew were sophistical arguments without a true logical basis

This is why I have never been impressed with atheists who have the impression that only stupid people are Christian

My father went on to Caltech for undergrad and Berkeley for PhD

I will thank God if I can be as godly as he is, or more

It's through this convert to the true faith that I know the Lord today

He has brought me to worship the Lord every Lord's Day

He has taught me both orthodoxy and orthopraxy

He has encouraged me to learn the Scriptures

He has rejected what is popular but sinful

He has embraced what is unpopular but just and true

He has kept himself clean of sexual defilement

Praise God you have such a father!

@Daniil Oxford.

Neat

Ever thought of founding an official chapter?

Off-topic, but is the reason why the fantasy genre is so attractive is because people actually realize that modernity and modern values suck?

Some of it

When it is done well, yes

I remember how Gurge RR Mertins made Stannis as an example of why Medieval values were terrible, and why modern values based on social-contract theory were superior, but then everyone ended up loving Stannis and he got really butthurt about it.

John C Wright's young adult series is somewhat about this directly.... the elfs that secretly pull strings from the shadows have stolen meaning and hope from the world

It's not even with fantasy

Lol I love when that happens... Alan Moore was butthurt that people loved Rorschach

Oh yeahhhh.

Owlman was apparently the one that everyone was supposed to like, ahahahah

Soy owl

Like how Judge Dredd was made by a bunch of British degenerates to satirise "OY FASCISM BRUV" but then everybody ended up unironically loving Judge Dredd.

Btw Wright's ya series I mentioned is real good.... and has one segment I love bc it reminds me of all y'all crazy Catholics

I'll check it out

The hero is facing some monsters, including an evil wolf

The wolf hears he is a Christian, and laughs, and starts blaspheming

"When the disciples stole the body from the tomb, they dumped it unceremoniously in a field! None have tasted the flesh and blood of Christ but wolf and wolf alone!"