A friend of mine recently emailed this quotation to me. It contains profound insight into the liberal ideology:
"'That liberalism may be a tendency towards something very different from itself, is a possibility in its nature . . . . It is a movement not so much defined by its end, as by its starting point; away from, rather than towards something definite.' What liberalism has constantly moved away from are the constraints on personal liberty imposed by religion, morality, law, family, and community." (Bork, Robert H., Slouching Towards Gomorrah, (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1996 p. 61 quoting Eliot, T.S., Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society & Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1940, 1949,) p. 12.)
The question: if constraints imposed by religion and morality continue to loosen to due to societal pressure, will liberalism continue on its downward trek of continual deviance?
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