It introduces the article by saying that it will demonstrate that "progressive" men should reject Protestantism. I am not a progressive man, so why should I pay further attention?
Neither is Dr. Rao, if you read further. He isn’t “progressive” in the left wing sense- far from it.
You might find this interesting. Anti-American and anti-Conservative rubbish written by this same fellow (Dr. Rao):
An Open Letter to Miloslav Cardinal Vlk
Here are some important selections from the letter:
Modern nationalism, from Giuseppe Mazzini to George Bush, turns respectable love of country into an unacceptable ideology of pseudo-religious character. My argument in Prague was that American nationalism is the contemporary world’s clearest and most dangerous example of this brand of ideological pseudo-religion; that it is a worldwide menace both to other countries’ legitimate patriotic aspirations to independence and cultural integrity as well as to the interests of true religion....
I certainly did bring up the topic of the Triumph of the Will in my Prague lecture, but for the purpose of attacking two frequent and complementary Americanist/ Pluralist demands. One of these, popular with American conservatives, is the call to shape public policy in the United States not on the basis of any objective standards of ethics and Reason, but on that of the "Will of the Founding Fathers". This, I noted, exactly parallels the classical Fascist appeal to the "Will of the Leader"....
Yes, it is true that my talk was obviously opposed to the Bush Administration’s policies in the Middle East, and, by extension, to the policies of governments which actively approve of current American international adventurism, the government of Israel among them. Surely you are not saying that anti-Semitism and a refusal unquestioningly to accept and support American and Israeli foreign policy are one and the same thing?...Or are Faith, Reason and Truth simply the playthings of truly neo-Nazi strongmen and their fellow-travelers who have learned to talk the superficially seductive talk of freedom and democracy louder and more insistently than their wretched victims? And are such neo-Nazi crimes against Reason something which the Catholic of 2006 is not allowed to criticize simply because the powerful men and women perpetrating them are still alive, very threatening and not as easy to chastise as dead villains from 1606?....
I'm sure that all of the Freepers who post at this site will be happy to discover that when they invoke the memory of the accomplishments of our Founding Fathers they are making what amounts to a "classical Facist appeal." Then again, maybe not.