Conservative Cashill Considers Legacy Of Judas & American Cultural Guideposts

Right now we're REALLY PLEASED to share this note on faith and culture from one of Kansas City's top conservative scribes . . .

Very often, in this cowtown, notes on faith life are shared from a progressive perspective and that's cool but there's also a great many other viewpoints to consider amid bloggy discussion of belief and Mr. Cashill consistently shares a traditional, informed and insightful view with his readers . . . Here's a quote from his latest Substack post that's apropos for today . . .  

At a business luncheon a few days later, I told this story to my table mates. In telling it, I reiterated the thesis of Allan Bloom’s surprise bestseller, The Closing of the American Mind. Bloom had argued that without commonly recognized cultural guideposts we lose the ability to share information with the young. “If they don’t who Benedict Arnold is,” I asked, “who do we point to as a universally accepted example of a traitor?”

“Judas,” said one fellow. Yes, of course. We all seemed to agree except for one confused looking young woman. Asked she in all innocence, “Who’s Judas?” If I did not know it beforehand, I knew it then—the culture was in trouble. Where to begin?

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