Humanity is doomed

I don't mean right away, although as a Christian it is an article of faith to me that the human race is, in fact doomed to eventual oblivion and that only those who accept Christ as their savior will escape that doom. In the mean time, some people seem hell-bent (pardon the pun) to speed the process along. Such is the way of thinking that Mark Steyn critiques here:

Let's go back over that slowly and try not to get a headache: the EU's main concern about an actual epidemic of hate crimes against Jews is that it could provoke a hypothetical epidemic of hate crimes against Muslims. You couldn't ask for a better illustration of the uselessness of these thought-police bodies: they're fine for chastising insufficiently guilt-ridden whites in an ongoing reverse-minstrel show of cultural self-abasement, but they don't have the stomach for confronting real racism. A tolerant society is so reluctant to appear intolerant, it would rather tolerate intolerance.

In Holland, the late Pim Fortuyn recognised that at some point the contradiction has to be resolved. In Nigeria and Sudan and other frontiers between the ummah and the rest of the world, it already has - in favour of sharia and the Islamists. It's hard to see why the enervated West should prove any more successful at squaring the circle. But we can at least cherish the absurdities on the way down: European Jews menaced by anti-Semites get less attention than American Muslims menaced by polysemites.

Yes indeed. The absurdity of our culture's obsession with tolerance will either be cured or it will destroy us. In the intervening period, we might as well find a way to laugh at our own downfall.