St. Anthony syndrome

St. Anthony syndrome

Great and widely-applicable story from Dawn Eden at National Review Online, from a discussion of Planned Parenthood and the left’s absolute hatred of abstinence education:

Some 1,700 years ago, a hermit living in the Egyptian desert predicted “a time is coming when people will go mad.”“And when they see someone who is not mad,” continued the man known today as St. Anthony the Great, “they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad, you are not like us.’”

What are some examples of this syndrome?

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The Impact of St. Augustine
"I thought the most important step was step 9?!?! :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1IiYZBdc9A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-9BaikNib0"

The Impact of St. Augustine
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The Impact of St. Augustine
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