“Consider Page 1 of The New York Times [NYT] on June 7, 1944. The first sentence of its top story after D-Day reported that “the entire country joined in solemn prayer.”
Next to this story was a dutiful transcription of President Roosevelt’s national prayer: “Almighty God: Our sons have set upon a mighty endeavor . . .
“Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.”
If President Bush had invoked the kingdom of the Almighty, today’s so-called liberals would have destroyed him. But in 1944, a Democratic icon prayed for salvation and nobody blinked.
The Times did not limit its discussion of prayer to the news side. An editorial run the same day said:
“We pray for the boys . . . we pray for our country . . . the cause prays for itself, for it is the cause of the God who created man free and equal.”
This is a far cry from the anti-Christian screeds that have come to dominate the op-ed pages of many American newspapers.
Liberal voices today try to tell us that the right side of the political spectrum has grown too rigidly conservative, “clinging to their guns and religion,” as Barack Obama put it so derisively on the campaign trail last year.
These liberal voices are lying.”
They forgot to add “guts” to the list.
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