To: NYer
The ruling class's manifold efforts to discredit and drive worship of God out of public life -- not even the Soviet Union arrested students for wearing crosses or praying, or reading the Bible on school property, as some U.S. localities have done in response to Supreme Court rulings -- convinced many among the vast majority of Americans who believe and pray that today's regime is hostile to the most important things of all. Every December, they are reminded that the ruling class deems the very word "Christmas" to be offensive. Every time they try to manifest their religious identity in public affairs, they are deluged by accusations of being "American Taliban" trying to set up a "theocracy." Let members of the country class object to anything the ruling class says or does, and likely as not their objection will be characterized as "religious," that is to say irrational, that is to say not to be considered on a par with the "science" of which the ruling class is the sole legitimate interpreter. Because aggressive, intolerant secularism is the moral and intellectual basis of the ruling class's claim to rule, resistance to that rule, whether to the immorality of economic subsidies and privileges, or to the violation of the principle of equal treatment under equal law, or to its seizure of children's education, must deal with secularism's intellectual and moral core. This lies beyond the boundaries of politics as the term is commonly understood.
America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
1st Amendment, US Constitution
5 posted on
07/29/2010 10:46:41 AM PDT by
Tzimisce
(No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
To: Tzimisce
The school: it’s not a law, it is a policy.
The court: it’s not a law, it’s a ruling.
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22 posted on
07/29/2010 11:40:45 AM PDT by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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