Here’s another paragraph from the letter from Larry T. from California, the “astute commentator” on the Lincoln Cult that I blogged about yesterday. After noting that “What to my knowledge has not been explored is Lincoln’s chilling mastery of the rituals of blood sacrifice,” i.e., using the war dead to “justify” revolutionary change that overthrew the voluntary union of the founders, he writes: “As a general rule, the more illegitmate and insecure a regime is, the more sacred blood must be spilled to sanctify it. Shortly after 9/11 my wife and I found ourselves touring a shaken Washington, D.C. The … Continue reading America’s Aztec Shrine to Blood Sacrifice