"Culture wars break out when groups form that renounce basic, long - standing norms and values in a society... "


St. Mary Magdalene's Catholic Parish, Brackettville, Texas, U.S.A. 78832.

Adapted randomly from this source: The Dumbest Generation, by Mark Bauer, 2008.

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"Good ideas stay fresh by challenge, and bad ideas go away, at least until they can be modified and repackaged.

"Knowledgeable antagonists elevate the process into a busy marketplace of ideas an d policies, and further, at critical times, into something many people dread and regret, but that has, in truth, a sanative influence: a culture war.

"Culture wars break out when groups [like the New Age Revolutionaries embedded in the so - called American Catholic Church, years ago, before they became themselves entrenched and thus became the establishment!] form that renounce basic, long - standing norms and values in a society and carry their agenda into mass media, schools [parishes] and halls of power.

"The battle lines aren't just political or economic, and people don't fight only over resources and access.

"They attack and defend the hegemony, that is the systems of ideals, standards, customs, and expectations that govern daily affairs by ordinary people and big decisions by public figures,.

"Defenders experience the system almost unconsciously as simply the way things are and ought to be [Example: Kumbaya rules! The Lavender Mafia rules!], while attackers [that's the pro - Pope Benedict XVI crowd, aka us!] suffer it as a dynamic, oppressive, and ubiquitous construct.

"The conflict veers toward psycho - political and religious terrain where minds don't easily meet and common grounds are lacking.

"The war is ideological [as it is here Brackettville, Texas, U.S.A. Zip code 78832 :) ], a trial of fundamental assumptions about justice, truth, beauty, and identity, and its outcome is sweeping..."