Uh, too late; for folks HAVE been!
Wanna bet?
"Let us unite in opposition to satan as manifested my communism and get back to the battle..."
Some folks can multi-task. Hell is forever, communism isn't.
April, as I understand it, this forum is about conservatism. Conservatism necessarily entails some discussion about the Creator who endowed us with our inalienable political rights, because without that, we have nothing on the communists. Seriously.
However, I agree with you in one respect. Taking cheap shots at anyone over anything is unhelpful. But I don’t think the discussion here is “cheap.” Sure, there’s always going to be a few wiseacres who make thoughtless remarks. They are meaningless noise. Ignore them. But those who are here to figure this out, in good faith and sincerity, why should they surrender their free speech on issues critical to our future as a nation? And if some of them believe, as I do, and evidently as Beck does, that God is a critical factor in defeating the communists, why should we leave Him out of the discussion? If, as Beck says, God is the answer to our political death spiral, why should we not be free to talk about God in the context of politics?
Furthermore, I have not said I was unwilling to work with those whose view of God is different from mine. If atheists and Muslims and Presbyterians and Mormons want to speak with a united voice, both in the culture and at the ballot box, in support of the inalienable right to life of the unborn, or the right to liberty of those who wish to deal with their own healthcare needs, or the right to property of taxpayers unwilling to fund foreign mosque-building projects, then let us raise our voices together in those causes.
But that doesn’t mean a Christian should ever let panic control or suppress his or her testimony as a Christian. I once worked in an environment (nuke power) where they tried to teach the employees to not fall victim to what they called a false sense of urgency. A valve blows, the rods start dropping, all the alert panels start lighting up, and the mind starts taking erratic and unhelpful shortcuts. That’s exactly the time to take a deep breath, get control of yourself, and think calmly about what is the right thing to do.
And that is exactly what is happening when our FRiends, right in the middle of the greatest threat ever to our Republic, try to point us back to the God who brought us to this dance. It sounds as though you see God and politics as two separable issues, but a careful reflection on our history suggests they are not so easily separated, and that makes talking about God a part of the solution, not part of the problem.