The conflict goes clear back to the earliest modernist urges, traceable to a cabal of pagans who had managed to survive for nearly 1000 years after Constantine's conversion by overtly going along with Romano-Christian society while covertly continuing their near worship of Plato. The Rennaissance gave them their first big opportunity, but the fire and brimstone of Savoranolla caused them to hold back at that time. They got their first real openning with the popularization amongst certain urban intellectuals of the ideas of Rousseau, and the copycatting of them by Jacobins, Marxists, anarchists and the like. The Baby Boom combined with the corrosive forces of the long years of the FDR regime and the post WW2 explosion of commercialism gave the pagans and utopian "humanist" intellectuals their coup, when they were able to con a critical mass of the Worst Generation into undertaking full rebellion against God and against Western core values and traditions. And here we are, picking up the pieces of the mess.
But Obama said there is no liberal America and no conservative America - only the United States of America - are they going to argue with him?
Maybe we should also do away with those government programs that help the poor, since isn't charity and helping others one of those pesky "religious" thingies? /sarc
These same anointed have figured out that this so-called G-d their parents or grandparents believe(d) in is not Santa Claus!! So how could He be real? This tiny bit of introspection ends right there, meaning for them that the highest of all possible Thought and Value must come from the puny but busy brains of their loudest voices.
Soft, furry animals are to be REVERED at all costs. Too bad human fetuses don't have fur.
Praying and reading a Holy Book is backward and stupid. Unless you are not Christian. Then, it becomes exotic, quaint, and deserving of deep respect. [Look, if I am not even Christian and I have figured it out, it only shows how biased and stupid the Left is.]
Big business is Evil. Unless it donates to an anointed cause, or hires an anointed person.
Rich people do not deserve their money. It should be taken from them. Unless they received it from entertaining people.
I could go on all day. Liberals are so stuck on teeny concepts. I would guess they are pee-poor chess players.
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The mantra of secular fundamentalism is pacifism, so we'd lose the right to defend ourselves. No guns, of course. And pretty soon, no US.