Post-Sanity America : By H.W. Crocker III - What do you do when you live in a culture where, to an alarming degree, the institutions are run by lunatics? Toward the end of his life, I got to know William Peter Blatty , author of The Exorcist . He was a faithful Catholic, but very skeptical—or realistic—about man’s openness to revelation. He once wrote that if God were to suddenly appear atop the Chrysler Building at the stroke of noon amid thunder and lightning after darkening the sun and then causing it to slash the incredulous sky with fiery figure eights and Immelmanns by way of showing its “Creator I.D.” before demanding we be kind to one another “or else,” for a time most who witnessed this would instantly “believe,” though soon enough they would doubt their own senses, citing “mass hallucination” or perhaps “wishful thinking on a stupefying scale,”…. Jesus, addressing the Pharisees, was similarly realistic in His parable of the rich man and Lazarus, saying that “...
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