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Reagan was right about unilateral disarmament. If you leave the battlefield and discard your weapons, then you’ll at best have no impact, and at worst you’ll be roundly defeated.

As one man said, “The Gates of Hell will not prevail” doesn’t mean we are being attacked by gates. It means we are storming the gates.

Christians are not storming the gates. They’re out hiding in their homes and preparing for a backyard barbeque.

And, oddly, there is no leader(s) leading the conflict with the culture.

Reagan was right about unilateral disarmament alright, but why was he right? Why did anyone ever think such a policy would work in the first place? Answer, because the Christian concept of Man as being inherently flawed has been replaced by the secularist viewpoint of Man being perfect, marred only by "culture", "society", or "the past". The constrained view of humanity, once almost universal, has been gradually replaced with an unconstrained view.

Thus, the liberals/secularists/humanists pushed unilateral disarmament because they say such an example will reach out to our enemies, appeal to their better natures, remove all possible threats and therefore encourage understanding. Christians know this is nonsense, partly on practical grounds but mostly because we know that people do not HAVE a better nature, except as God works upon them.

The point is that we cannot fight this evil by just simply denying liberal demands, which is how politics works. We have to show people that the underlying philosophy behind these liberal arguments is just flawed. Should we be storming the gates of hell? Yes, but remember, as C S Lewis said, the gates of hell are locked on the inside. Its probably more appropriate to say we should be yanking people out before they can shut the gate. :)

Christians are not storming the gates. They’re out hiding in their homes and preparing for a backyard barbeque. And, oddly, there is no leader(s) leading the conflict with the culture.

Since Billy Graham has become superannuated and Jerry Falwell has died, there is no Protestant/Evangelical figure who can serve as a figurehead; in no small part because of the vicious fight the left has put up against anyone new in the pipeline since those men came of age.

This is why societies with kings and popes historically have outlasted equality-based democracies; and even why great American family businesses and foundations veer off their righteous ideals or founding purposes straight into socialist politics once the founding family dies off. We are now seeing the sleepwalking culture of low information that seeks tyranny all by itself.