[Marathon]

They aren't out of touch with reality (well, they are, but not in the way Gingrich is thinking). They are just playing out the logical defense of the state religion (secular humanism) that they have established in contempt of Christianity and other religions. Censoring the Pledge of Allegiance is just the inevitable outworking of their goal to completely eliminate any challenge, criticism of, contradiction to or dissent from the state religion.

SH never has been able to defend itself on logical or empirical grounds, so the reliance on totalitarianism, censorship and other forms of non-rational persuasion (movie propaganda, historical revisionism, etc.) is necessary in their "evangelistic" outreach.

[newsperson999]

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[aristeides]

Establishing secular humanism as the state religion can only work so long as the fact that that is what is being done is hidden from the public. What those two judges did today was too obvious. They may just by their action have doomed the whole enterprise of establishing secular humanism. The only recourse open to the adherents of secular humanism is to quickly and vociferously repudiate what the judges did, in the hope that the public will not notice.

[twntaipan]

Well said. Very well said.