Bill Donahue - 2 of 2

Bill Donohue’s Book - 2 of 2
In pursuit of the truth – cinops be gone – Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The book is “Secular Sabotage,” How Liberals are Destroying Religion… p. 5- 7

For all the talk about how multicultural our society is, the United States is still only .4 percent Hindu, .6 percent Muslim, and 1.7 percent Jewish; approximately 8 in 10 Americans are Christians. It stands to reason, then, that the radical secularists must sabotage Catholicism and Protestantism if they are to be a success. And that they have done. The most cherished beliefs and practices of Christianity are routinely trashed … this includes some who teach in the seminaries and divinity schools…

Princeton’s Robert George believes that the real clash of civilizations is less between the world’s major civilizations than it is “between those who claim the Judeo-Christian worldview and those who have abandoned that worldview in favor of the ‘isms’ of contemporary American life – feminism, multiculturalism, gay liberationist, lifestyle liberalism.”

Lumped together, they constitute what George calls, “the secular orthodoxy,” … in the culture war, George notes that for the most part we are dealing with “sexuality, the transmitting and taking of human life, and the place of religion.”

Driving the nihilists is a tortured vision of sexuality that is so unhinged from reality as to be maddening. Libertinism is too kind a word to describe what they want. And to reach their state of perpetual ecstasy, they need to take down Christianity, especially Catholicism: it is restraint that the secular purists find most objectionable…

Christian holidays make secular nihilists sick. Which explains why they are relentless in their quest to censor Christmas and cast eternal doubt account of Easter…?

At the intellectual level, a militant atheism has surged, firing a cadre of hate-filled activists who go for the jugular. Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are not content to dissect religion – they want to annihilate it. At the level of pop culture, comedians like Bill Maher are not satisfied to lambaste religion – they want to insult, demean, and disparage believers; his assaults on Catholicism are so vicious as to be pathological...

The American experiment was never supposed to be a celebration of unbounded liberty. On the contrary, it was supposed to be a mission in service to the good society, one where justice and happiness triumphed. To do this required ordered liberty…

Have the moral anarchists won? BUT IF THEY ARE NOT STOPPED, THEY WILL. The only force capable of defeating them is a strong coalition of religious conservatives. For this to happen – and it is already happening – religion’s conservatives will have to put aside their theological differences. Traditional Catholics, evangelical Protestants, and Orthodox Jews, as well as mot Orthodox Jews, as well as most Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and Mormons, share a core set of moral values that are antithetical to the moral wasteland of those out to destroy them. To prevail, the conservatives have to be bolder than ever, and that means they have to be prepared for assaults on their character and their religion.

George H. Kubeck