Posted on 01/14/2007 4:53:30 PM PST by freedomdefender
I am certainly not a Churchill. I am not even a Revel. I am having enough trouble just trying to be a Lapin. But I am issuing a very serious warning about deep consequences, just as they did. It is a warning about the earliest stages of what could become a cataract of disasters if not resisted now.
During the 1930s, Winston Churchill desperately tried to persuade the English people and their government to see that Hitler meant to end their way of life. The British ignored Churchill, which gave Hitler nearly 10 years to build up his military forces. It wasn't until Hitler actually drew blood that the British realized they had a war on their hands. It turned out to be a far longer and more destructive war than it needed to be had Churchill's early warning been heeded.
In 1983, a brave French writer, Jean-Francois Revel, wrote a book called "How Democracies Perish." In this remarkable volume, he described how communism's aim is world conquest. For decades he had been trying to warn of communism's very real threat. Yet in January 1982, a high State Department official said: "We Americans are not solving problems, we are the problem." (Some things never change.) A good portion of the planet fell to communism, which brought misery and death to millions because we failed to recognize in time that others meant to harm us.
Heaven knows there was enough warning during the 1980s of the intention of part of the Islamic world to take yet another crack at world domination. Yet instead of seeing each deadly assault on our interests around the world as a test of our resolve, we ignored it. We failed the test and lost 3,000 Americans in two unforgettable hours.
I am not going to argue that what is happening now is on the same scale as the examples I cite above, but a serious war is being waged against a group of Americans. I am certain that if we lose this war, the consequences for American civilization will be dire.
Phase one of this war I describe is a propaganda blitzkrieg that is eerily reminiscent of how effectively the Goebbels propaganda machine softened up the German people for what was to come.
There is no better term than propaganda blitzkrieg to describe what has been unleashed against Christian conservatives recently.
Consider the long list of anti-Christian books that have been published in recent months. Here are just a few samples of more than 30 similar titles, all from mainstream publishers:
"American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America"
"The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us"
"The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason"
"Piety & Politics: The Right-wing Assault on Religious Freedom"
"Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism"
"Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America"
"Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right"
What is truly alarming is that there are more of these books for sale at your local large book store warning against the perils of fervent Christianity than those warning against the perils of fervent Islam. Does anyone seriously think America is more seriously jeopardized by Christian conservatives than by Islamic zealots? (Yep, that loonytunes loudmouth, Rosie O'DonnelI, said something to that effect on the popular TV show, "The View" - RJ) fear that many Americans believe just that in the same way that many pre-World War II Westerners considered Churchill a bigger threat than Hitler.
Some may say that today's proliferation of anti-Christian print propaganda is nothing to become worried about. To them I ask two questions:
First, would you be so sanguine if the target of this loathsome library were Jewish? Just try changing the titles in some of the books I mention above to reflect anti-Semitism instead of rampant anti-Christianism and you'll see what I mean.
Second, major movements that changed the way Americans felt and acted came about through books, often only one book. Think of Rachel Carson's 1962 error-filled "Silent Spring" that resulted in the pointless banning of the insecticide DDT and many unnecessary deaths. Other books that caused upheavals in our nation were Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," many of Ayn Rand's books and of course "Uncle Tom's Cabin." ("Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrlich is another...I confess reading it as student at university & being mightily impressed by it....but since I'm older & bit wiser, I know now it was a lot of propaganda & hot air & unproven assumptions....the truth is the opposite - RJ)
No, I would advise you not to underestimate the power of books to alter the behavior of the American public, and I fear for an America influenced to detest Christianity by this hate-filled catalog.
It is not just books but popular entertainment also that beams the most lurid anti-Christian propaganda into the hearts and minds of viewers. One need only think of who the real targets of the recent hit movie "Borat" are. The brilliant Jewish moviemaker Sacha Baron Cohen, as his title character, using borderline dishonest wiles, lures some innocent but unsophisticated country folk, obviously Christians, to join him in his outrageously anti-Semitic antics. Cohen then triumphantly claims to have exposed anti-Semitism. In fact, he has revealed nothing other than the latent anti-Christianism of America's social, economic and academic secular elites.
Even the recent PBS documentary, "Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence," managed to do more attacking Christianity than defending Judaism.
Richard Dawkins, an Oxford University professor, is one of the generals in the anti-Christian army of the secular left. American academia treats him with reverence and hangs on his every word when he insists that "religious myths ought not to be tolerated."
For those with a slightly more tolerant outlook, he asks, "It's one thing to say people should be free to believe whatever they like, but should they be free to impose their beliefs on their children?" He suggests that the state should intervene to protect children from their parents' religious beliefs. Needless to say, he means Christian beliefs, of course. Muslim beliefs add to England's charmingly diverse cultural landscape.
The war is against those who regard the Bible to be God's revelation to humanity and the Ten Commandments to be His set of rules for all time. Phase one in this war is to make Christianity, well, sort of socially unacceptable. Something only foolish, poor and ugly people could turn to.
We have seen how a carefully constructed campaign pretty much made it socially unacceptable to drink and drive. For years, there had been stringent laws against drunk driving. They achieved little. In the end, the practice was all but eliminated by groups allied with Mothers Against Drunk Driving and their effective ways of changing the way Americans thought about it.
We have seen how a carefully constructed campaign has pretty much made it socially unacceptable to smoke. In the face of a relentless campaign (dare one call it propaganda?), Americans became docile and forfeited the right to make their own decisions. Nobody was willing to stand up to the no-smoking tyrants. Nobody even asked whether health was sufficient grounds for freedom to be reduced. Now, entire cities and even states have banned smoking, not only in public places but even in privately owned restaurants.
Tyranny comes when citizens are seduced into trading freedom for the promise of safety and security.
Considerably more intellectual energy is being pumped into the propaganda campaign against Christianity than was ever delivered to the anti-smoking or anti-drunk-driving campaigns. Fervent zealots of secularism are flinging themselves into this anti-Christian war with enormous fanaticism.
If they succeed, Christianity will be driven underground, and its benign influence on the character of America will be lost. In its place we shall see a sinister secularism that menaces Bible believers of all faiths. Once the voice of the Bible has been silenced, the war on Western Civilization can begin and we shall see a long night of barbarism descend on the West.
Without a vibrant and vital Christianity, America is doomed, and without America, the West is doomed.
Which is why I, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, devoted to Jewish survival, the Torah and Israel am so terrified of American Christianity caving in.
Many of us Jews are ready to stand with you. But you must lead. You must replace your timidity with nerve and your diffidence with daring and determination. You are under attack. Now is the time to resist it.
"Appenently the only one that gets it is George W Bush. God bless him. Pray for our troups!"
I agree and I pray for our troops everyday. God Bless America, President Bush, and All of our troops.
And there are also a lot of non believer FReepers like myself
We may not have a faith but unlike the leftist we have eyes to see what's happening and a brain to understand
I understand your feelings and I see what your saying. the problem is that President Bush is fighting the same enemy we are. The enemy is the 535 people in the House and Senate. We the People elected these idiots and President Bush and We the People have to live with them. I'm sure all of us have disagreed with President Bush and We the People are entitled too. I feel that President Bush is working for America and he is accomplishing very much in spite if those 535 idiots that We the People elected. If you read the Constitution the House and the Senate are the ones that run our government. The Executive Branch runs the day to day operation and asks for what is needed from the House and Senate to accomplish what needs to be done. If the House and Senate would stop letting lobbyists fill their pockets everyday and start doing their job, and start helping the President get rid of those factions that are in the Executive Branch like the EPA and all the others that do more than We the People need done by people that are not elected, that should be told what needs to be done and that's as much as they need to do. Also the Courts need to be told to use the Constitution of the United States to make their decisions not anything else. If we would start using term limits in the House and Senate and get rid of those that have been in office for thirty and forty years that are just lining their pockets, things would be better.
Following a good night's sleep, I have to say my comments last night were overdramatic :-). However, I would still observe that the outcome looks bleak for American Jews, unless there's a significant reversal of societal trends.
The alignment of radical leftists with Moslems is particularly hostile to Orthodox Jews. Considering TomSmedley's comments - and looking at my own little army - maybe the rabbi isn't just thinking wishfully about American Christians' taking a stand to defend the Jews. Maybe enough of us will, if it comes to that point.
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I am Jewish, somewhat practicing, and vote only for conservative Republicans. I am also pro life. I believe our numbers will grow. Unfortunately, the MSM tries to downplay our influence and underestimates our numbers. If 20 or 30% of Jews voted for Bush they will claim it was 15%. This is deliberate. It is the media's way of saying to the Dems, "You can say and do whatever you want - the dummies will vote for you anyway so go ahead and keep undermining America".
This was such a sickening incident and hows how quickly the Moslems in Bosnia turned on their Jewish neighbors who had lived there for centuries.
So who has control of America's nuclear arsenal in this book? And here is the real kicker in all of these arguements against religious Christians....the next American civil war may well be a nuclear one.
Christians are everywhere in our country...our military and our sciences as well....these secularists that are attempting to suppress Christianity had better understand that means suppressing much of the productive capacity of the US economy and our military capacity as well.
Yes the rabble might be aroused to attack the churches, but Christianity in this country doesn't have a pacifist history; and because of the sciences and technology available, the secularists are going to wish they hadn't stirred up that particular hornets nest!
"f they succeed, Christianity will be driven underground, and its benign influence on the character of America will be lost. In its place we shall see a sinister secularism that menaces Bible believers of all faiths. Once the voice of the Bible has been silenced, the war on Western Civilization can begin and we shall see a long night of barbarism descend on the West. "
What we are seeing is in the same way what was going on in ancient Rome, America now being the present day Rome. With more of the Christian faith coming more under attack and being driven underground.
Goes to show that Islam is from the Enemy and the Father of Lies.
Why aren't these pictures more widely shown?
From time to time, I listen when I get a chance, to Wahlid Shobat. Here is a former Muslim who not only supported jihad but also was a jihadi before he came to faith in Christ and became a Christian. Mr. Shobat is an example that Christians must not be fearful of proclaiming the good news of the Gospel because it more Muslims come to faith in the REAL Jesus Christ, there is hope not only for peace but a true appriciation of the Jewish heritage of Christianity and to true followship with not only with other Christians but with the Jewish people.
While there is growth of the Muslim religion and I even hate to call it a religion in the world, take confort that in the global south of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the Christian faith is growing even faster. In Africa alone, with new members coming in everyday, they have to build new churches just to handle the explosive growth in new members. It is the hope brought about by the good news.
You refer to JINOs, not actual Jews.
That's like pasting all Roman Catholics with the brush of Ted Kennedy or Jon Carey --- or all Baptists with tthe brush of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
If America's Christians do not resist the Left's onslaught, America will go the way of Old Europe - into the history books.
-Which will then be burned as banned literature!
Also this famous saying rings true, "the blood of the Christian marytrs is the seeds for new Christians". All this persecution will do will simply spread the good news of the Gospel all the more.
Congratulations! You're the first person to post a reply based on the headline, without reading the article. I'm surprised it took until #7 for someone to blast Jews based on the headline alone.
Bingo.
I would also opine, from my own family's experience, that the majority of the young Jews are extremely conservative.
My non-observant aunt & uncle have three sons. One in the US Marines, one in the US Air Force, and the youngest in the IDF -- mobile artillery.
All active Republicans --- and sometime freepers.
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