Bill Donohue's Book - 1 of 2

Bill Donohue’s Book- 1 of 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.org – Saturday, October 3, 2009

Bill is president of “The Catholic League.” His book is Secular Sabotage - “How Liberals are Destroying Religion and Culture in America?” The following are selected excerpts from Chapter 1 - “Revenge of the Nihilists. p. 1—7

All of us know people who are nonbelievers, and most of them are decent human beings… The problem group are radical secular activists out to disable America.

What bothers these men and women more than anything is the Judeo-Christian heritage that marks Western civilization. That tradition stresses virtue and places a premium on the family and the sanctity of human life. It emphasizes sobriety and moderation, shunning excess and debauchery. It understands that there is a moral hierarchy and acknowledges the existence of truth. It recognizes sin and evil, but it also believes in redemption. And it professes a strong belief in God, the creator of the universe. All of this makes radical secularists sick.

No part of society is off-limits to these extremists. It is not just the dominant culture that is under assault – LEFT-WING ACTIVISTS HAVE SUNK THEIR SECULAR CLAWS INTO CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM AS WELL. The goal is not reform: it is an attempt to gut core beliefs and practices. And to a disturbing extent, the secularists have succeeded in turning things upside down and inside out…

What exactly motivates them? They started as egalitarians. Now they are mostly anarchist. In other words, their passion for equality across the board – class, race, ethnic, gender – has fizzled, leaving them angry and dismayed. Whatever might be said of the Marxists, they had a blueprint for the future… although completely wrong; at least they had a game plan, a clear but distorted vision of what a new society would look like. They were not anarchists happy to search and destroy everything in sight…

Today’s secular extremists more resemble bratty kids throwing a temper tantrum than they do revolutionaries: having witnessed their left-wing hopes go up in flames with the crash of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union, and all other Marxist wonderlands, they are in a state of despair…

To accomplish their world without hierarchy, they are prepared to use every trick in the book. In this regard, they do resemble the Marxists of old: they hold to the principle that the truth is that which serves the cause. Honesty as Lenin made plain, was for chumps. Similarly, today’s nihilists use deceit, demonization, and coercion as their weapon…

In other words, radical secularists have become cultural nihilists, or what be called secular saboteurs. Essentially what is being described is a highly politicized segment of the population that has seen its ideals crushed and has set its sights on destruction.

Those who challenge the radical secularists have been, and continue to be, demonized in a manner that knows no ethical boundaries… Religion is the cultural nucleus of society, so it is not surprising that the nihilists would pay special attention to its influence. It is not easy to decide which religion – Catholicism or Protestantism – has been hit the hardest; both have had the wind knocked out …
George H. Kubeck