Tower of Babel in the Bedford Book of Hours, 1423-30

“MOST liberal Christians today affirm that creating culturally diverse societies is the moral, godly, and just thing to do—the more diverse, the more just and godly. But if it is our purpose to discern God’s purpose, doesn’t it seem far more likely that God would oppose the creation of multicultural, majority-less societies? He would oppose them first because they rob human beings of the stable cultural environments and the concrete networks of belonging that are essential conditions of personal and social flourishing; second, he would oppose them because they lead to unresolvable conflict and disorder. In opening America’s borders to the world, our political leaders are not following any divine scheme but are indulging an all too human conceit: “We can create a totally just society” they tell themselves. “We can stamp out cultural particularities and commonalities that have taken centuries or millennia to develop. We can erect a new form of society based on nothing but an idea. We can ignore racial and cultural differences and the propensity to inter-group conflict that has ruled all of human history. We can create an earthly utopia, a universal nation.”

—- Lawrence Auster, Our Borders, Our Selves: America in the Age of Multiculturalism (forthcoming)

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