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Has the Right surrendered in the culture war?
The Washington Examiner ^ | 04-09-2009 | Chris Stirewalt

Posted on 04/09/2009 11:05:24 AM PDT by lifeisacarnival

The resurgence of traditional Christian mores and culture that began in the late 1970s has ended.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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I'm not sure if I agree with this guy, or if he's just been swamped in bad media. . . The mainstream media has always sought the death of the Religious Right and Culture Wars, but somehow they continue.
1 posted on 04/09/2009 11:05:25 AM PDT by lifeisacarnival
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To: lifeisacarnival

That’s what the left wants people to believe. They’ll have a rude awakening one of these days. Hopefully sooner than later.


2 posted on 04/09/2009 11:07:50 AM PDT by RC2
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To: lifeisacarnival

They been outvoted and outmaneuvered, since the “culture” has left them behind...


Since Obama has mentioned that we are no longer a Christian nation, I have posted this here, on Free Republic, several times — that the election of Obama is God’s judgment upon this nation...

A quote from a website (just general information...)

Abington Township School District v. Schempp — decided on June 17, 1963 — was the second so-called “school prayer” decision (the first came a year earlier in Engel v. Vitale). But it was the most far-reaching — prohibiting school officials from organizing or leading prayers and devotional Bible reading in public schools.

It’s been a long time since then, and I remember the time “before” and “after” for prayer and studying things of the Bible in school. For example, there was a time when, as a student, that I was given an assignment to learn and memorize a certain Psalm in school, as part of my school “homework” and assignment, to be recited in class.

And then, shortly afterwards, there was *nothing* any more of the Bible or Psalms or prayers or anything of God...

I would mark the time that we stopped being a Christian nation from that time (definitely so) forward.

God had given us over 40 years to “change things” but we haven’t and so now we have the “judgment of God” in the form and nature of Obama, designed specifically to *destroy the nation*...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2224811/posts?page=27#27


3 posted on 04/09/2009 11:08:40 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: lifeisacarnival

I remember when God was “dead”. Turned out, he was just spending time with all the souls of murdered, unborn babies.


4 posted on 04/09/2009 11:09:35 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Star Traveler

xactly - it’s like I keep saying - while Bambi is a problem, the real issue is our deluded fellow countrymen.


5 posted on 04/09/2009 11:10:16 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: lifeisacarnival

Some have, I suppose. The Cal Tomases, the Rick Warren’s, and their ilk. Not most of us. Those who ask the question should turn up at their local Tea Parties on April 15th...


6 posted on 04/09/2009 11:10:24 AM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: lifeisacarnival

America elected Barack Hussein Obama. We’re in very bad shape.


7 posted on 04/09/2009 11:11:52 AM PDT by donna (Sheriff Dept watch: http://www.firecoalition.com/article/index.asp?type=announce&id=111)
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Yep. The media lied. Obama lied. Half of Americans cannot recognize TRUTH from LIES.
8 posted on 04/09/2009 11:15:54 AM PDT by ryan71 (Time to buy guns and ammo, People.)
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To: lifeisacarnival
The "Right" lost the culture war more than 40 years ago.

I'd say that circa Liberty Valance [1962] was about the last era that the "Right" had any influence over the culture.

By the mid-1960s, the "War" was completely lost.

The problem for the "Right" was that they were so gullible and so naive and so trusting in people that they never even realized that there had been a "War", much less that they had lost it.

9 posted on 04/09/2009 11:15:59 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: lifeisacarnival
The article is pure bunk.

It simply points up how out of touch with reality the MSM is.

10 posted on 04/09/2009 11:18:16 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Why the hell is the best damned dance song ever written titled, "Sing, Sing, Sing"?)
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The left is DESPERATLY pushing this meme.

Meghan mccain was on TV last night (cnn) proudly pushing the homosexual marriage mantra.

CNN just prior had the christians have hijacked the republican party.

It is all about trying to make christianity VERBOTEN in political discourse. OR to be a christian is to be discredited before you open your mouth.

It is coordinated and orwellian.

christian = thoughtcrime.


11 posted on 04/09/2009 11:18:28 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: lifeisacarnival

Almost anything written by a press monkey has to be filtered through your own common sense lenses.

The Soulless Left has almost complete control of the news media, the entertainment media, and the public education system. Victory looks certain to them, and they are claiming it.

But the fight is not over, not at my house. I’ve turned off the Soulless Left’s news media years ago, I don’t watch their entertainment programming, the grandkids have been in private school for the last half dozen years. The church we are in keeps knocking out walls to make room for more people, so I know its not just us, and I think other churches in town are seeing the same thing.


12 posted on 04/09/2009 11:19:33 AM PDT by marron
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To: lifeisacarnival

Homeschooling movement is stronger than ever and growing.
Homeschooling families are LARGE.
Homeschooling families have multigenerational vision.

Homeschooling will be the next target of the left.


13 posted on 04/09/2009 11:20:15 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: lifeisacarnival
Are schools having an Easter vacation or a spring break? Has Santa Claus replaced the Nativity? Are we celebrating the resurrection of Jesus or the spring bunny? Is gay marriage happening?
14 posted on 04/09/2009 11:21:58 AM PDT by ex-snook ( "Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: Star Traveler

Religion has no place in Public School!!!!!

That is way there should not be a ‘Public School’.


15 posted on 04/09/2009 11:22:14 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: anniegetyourgun

Yes, that’s so true. We have to realize that the real and basic and foundational problem comes back to our own citizens. And there is where the problem really must be solved.

I like to say, at times, that the problem would also be solved quite easily if Christians simply made more Christians (i.e., got serious about proclaiming the Gospel to everyone possible and always did so...). Then the politics would take care of themsevles...


16 posted on 04/09/2009 11:24:40 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: lifeisacarnival

The “Right”, no. Republicans, yes.


17 posted on 04/09/2009 11:25:19 AM PDT by Obadiah (Party - my house - on December 22, 2012!)
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To: lifeisacarnival

No, but the RINOs have.


18 posted on 04/09/2009 11:25:21 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Star Traveler

Yep - the fields are white unto harvest.


19 posted on 04/09/2009 11:26:16 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Unassuaged

You said — Religion has no place in Public School!!!!!

Ummm... the first public school textbook authorized by our country was, very simply, the Bible... :-)

And since that time, we’ve come a long ways in getting God and the Bible “out of the public schools”...


20 posted on 04/09/2009 11:26:24 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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