And thereto I plight thee my troth

The suppressed conclusion of the previous post? Demography is destiny. A national democracy and a national church -- both, equally -- depend upon the dêmos, its “we the people.” This is visceral, not an idea: shared history is not some collective notion but a lived experience. There must be in hand a well-worn common currency, whose familiar coin is not debased, ready to be freely exchanged and transmitted, in trust, to the succeeding generation.

Dei gratia.