August 13, 2024
The Cult of Kindness: ‘Christianity Without Tears’
While sitting through my son’s recent graduation from elementary school I could not help but feel I was at a religious ceremony. Those who led the ceremony did not describe to parents any concrete academic skills that students had learned in the classroom; there was nothing about reading, writing, math, or science. Instead, the whole affair was shrouded in a cultish (and shallow) worship of being kind.
When I spoke to my own ninth-grade students about the graduation, one who was also present said that the ceremony seemed like “religion without a soul.” I told him that he was correct, adding that he might want to explore Aldous Huxley’s concept of “Christianity without tears” from the author’s classic 1932 novel Brave New World...
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