The Perfect Cultural Storm

The Perfect Cultural Storm
In pursuit of the truth – Cinops be gone – Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010

Let’s focus on this last chapter 10 of Bill Donohue’s book, Secular Sabotage – “How Liberals are Destroying Religion & Culture in America. Bill is President of the Catholic League.

“Secular saboteurs within the ranks of Catholicism and Protestantism are not going to give up, but they are not likely to succeed… While young people may be somewhat indifferent to religion, they are not screaming mad at their churches... the Catholic dissidents and the Protestant malcontents come up short. Sociologist Ken Sanchagrin was “astounded to see that by and large the growing churches are those that we ordinarily call conservative.” Conversely, “the more liberal the denomination by most people’s definition, the more they were losing.”…

Central to the battle between secularists and traditionalists are issues governing sexuality and the public role of religion. When these two areas of contention intersect, they have the makings of the perfect cultural storm… the outcome … will determine THE CONTENT OF NORMATIVE ORDER… nothing mobilizes secular saboteurs to war on the faithful more than challenges to their sexual libertine agenda. [Ref. Carl Anderson’s book, The Quiet Consensus for K. of C. action consideration.]

The issue of marriage is front and center. How will the right of two men affect religion? “This is going to affect every aspect of church-state relations.” Marc Stern, general counsel for the American Jewish Congress… Peter Steinfels writes, “He has in mind schools, health care centers, social service agencies, summer camps, homeless shelters, athletic programs and private business or services that operate by religious standards, like kosher caterers and marriage counselors.” “With regard to education, gay marriage will affect religious schools in admissions, employment, housing, and regulation of clubs. Licensing will also be impacted, especially laws affecting psychological clinics, social workers, and marital counselors.”…

To be sure, those out to sabotage America with their secular agenda are pushing hard for a train wreck. They are led on the intellectual front, by the new atheists: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett. The so-called Four Horsemen are fueled by religious hatred and a contempt for the religious traditions that mark Western Civilization… But not all agnostics and atheists are secularists at heart. Surely Guenter Lewy is not… he came to realize how indispensible religion is to the moral order. “We know of no society anywhere that has managed to build a culture devoid of religion.”… He is not easy on secular firebrands, the kind cut from the cloth of the Four Horsemen. He attributes to them a selfish and hedonistic individualism that reduces moral issues to civil liberties…

The militant atheists will stop at nothing, and that is why they must be relentless confronted by religious conservatives…

George H. Kubeck, The bottom line is what are you going to do about it? The battle is going on now!