Why Milo Scares Students, and Faculty Even More by Rachel Fulton Brown

Why Milo Scares Students, and Faculty Even More by Rachel Fulton Brown

This, I would argue, is why American college students and faculty find Milo’s talks so threatening. The issues that Milo talks about are usually considered political, but in fact have to do with people's deepest convictions: the proper relations between women and men, the definition of community, the role of beauty, access to truth. Milo professes himself a Catholic and wears a pair of gold crosses around his neck. He speaks about the importance of Christianity for the values of Western civilization. As he put it in one interview: “[Western civilization] has created a religion in which love and self-sacrifice and giving are the highest possible virtues… That's a good thing… But when you remove discipline and sacrifice from religion you get a cult.”

We are discovering that when you proscribe religion from the public square, you don't get no religion, you get dangerous religion.