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| | nthposition online magazine: Lead, kindly light |
 | | When a kindly professor had said to a relatively obtuse but winning classmate of mine “You know more about Thomism than anyone I’ve ever met,” I saw that Thomism was a trump card, much surer than bluffing. |
 | | I understood that “The world hath neither joy, nor love, nor light,” and that only Faith endures and saves, and that our secular, litigious way of life had supported moral decay, proxy wars, hysterical fright, atom-bomb drills in schools, inanity, television, degradation, sexism, schools as prisons, and the repression of religion and sex. |
 | | Like Ernest Becker (1924-73), the anthropologist and psychoanalyst, I moved to Canada where freedom of thought and expression are highly valued, even when the thoughts are politically incorrect and their expression unique, in spite of the Canadians having no First Amendment to ignore. |
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