{"id":97033,"date":"2016-09-05T10:13:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T17:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=97033"},"modified":"2016-09-05T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T17:13:04","slug":"in-defense-of-beauty-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/09\/in-defense-of-beauty-3.html","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Whenever somebody like St. Teresa is in the news, people start demanding that the poor people of the world be deprived of the chance to see beauty for free.  They call this \u201csocial justice\u201d but what it really is is \u201cvirtue signalling\u201d.  Dorothy Day had tart words to such cheap progressivism that says, like Judas, \u201cWhy were these things not sold and the money given to the poor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osv.com\/OSVNewsweekly\/ByIssue\/Article\/TabId\/735\/ArtMID\/13636\/ArticleID\/4164\/In-defense-of-beauty.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I discuss it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever somebody like St. Teresa is in the news, people start demanding that the poor people of the world be deprived of the chance to see beauty for free. They call this \u201csocial justice\u201d but what it really is is \u201cvirtue signalling\u201d. 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