11/01/05

I make this attempt to once again do some serious journaling on All Saints Day. The curious popularity of Halloween in this American culture without making the connection is so telling about the religious state of the nation. I read in Reader’s Digest this morning of how the United States are not nearly so polarized as the media makes them out to be; that there is the great silent majority of moderates that really don’t fall into the extremist fringes. This may well be true, but I would argue that this is not so much the result of intentional reason as it is apathetic neglect of the issues that results in the false appearance of moderation.