However, I think Wolfe is inconsistent on this point when he elsewhere intimates that particularity of culture and place does not necessarily mean particularity in marriage. Wolfe does contradict himself when he talks about the importance of particularity and then turns around and says that inter-racial marriages can be acceptable. Where now your particularity Dr. Wolfe? Where now your affirmation that common bonds are good?
Wolfe is in error when he suggest that it is possible for any government to be non-establishment. Establishment is a inescapable concept. It is never if establishment. It is only what religion is going to be established. Now, the establishment of religion by the State might look different in different settings but all States have a established religion. The established religion of these united States is Humanism, sometimes euphemistically referred to as “principled pluralism,” and we support it with forced tax dollars. Of course principled pluralism cannot exist without political polytheism.
Wolfe’s podcast was sold as a response to the Ogden affair. He only spent 4 minutes saying he had no tuck with Nazism and that being an American there was plenty of American historicism that we Americans could reach for to guide us so that nobody needed to reach for National Socialist principles. Finally, he said he would be back at Ogden to speak for next years conference.
I agree with Wolfe that we don’t need to reach for the collectivism that was German National Socialism. The model we have of a Christian Republic where there is unity in a limited diversity will serve us just fine.
