Who is wise? He who can see what has already been born.
-- The Babylonian Talmud
Little by little, year by year, those united behind a secular agenda have succeeded in imposing countless changes on Americans. Had the trend sometimes favored tradition and family and sometimes gone the other way, I doubt that a movement of Christian conservatives would be necessary today. But the trend has been overwhelmingly directed to only one end: It has inexorably shifted American society away from policies friendly to Judeo-Christian tradition. No sooner has one unfriendly change been successfully implemented than the next hostile policy initiative has been launched.
A Policy Born of Hatred
Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s [1963 school prayer] victory marked one of these major changes. Today, the removal of prayer from the public schools is generally regarded as an enlightened move that spoke against bigotry and with compassion to all Americans, whatever their faith or lack thereof. Most Jews and other religious minorities welcomed this Supreme Court ruling as an improvement that would make them feel more included in American society. Christians saw it entirely differently.
Few Americans are aware that O’Hair actually harbored a maniacal hatred for this country and had tried desperately to emigrate from here to the Soviet Union. In fact her son Bill Murray’s autobiography [William J. Murray, My Life Without God (Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 1982] reveals that instead of a loving mother concerned for her son’s rights or feelings, she was a violent and cruel woman who merely used her son to advance her goals. Bill Murray’s book presents a very different picture from that shown in the famous photographs of an all-American boy and his loving mother on the steps of the Supreme Court in 1962. After all, most Americans do not, while denying they are Communists, attempt to emigrate to the Soviet Union.
After doing just that and being refused entrance by Russia, O’Hair returned home and began her crusade. As her son recalls, she was incensed upon hearing that he participated in school prayers:
"You stupid fool," she said, slapping me hard across the face. "Don’t you understand what is going on yet?" Her face was flushed again. "Listen, kid, the United States of America is nothing more than a fascist slave labor camp run by a handful of Jew bankers in New York City. They trick you into believing you’re free with those phony rigged elections. Just because you can run around the street free doesn’t mean we are really free.
"The only way true freedom can be achieved is through the new socialist man—an entire race that lives for the state. Only when all men know the truth of their animal sameness will we have true freedom. Russia is close but not close enough, or they would have let us in. The CIA probably passed bad information on us. [emphasis added]
"...Well, if they’ll keep us from going to Russia where there is some freedom, we’ll just have to change America. I’ll make sure you never say another prayer in school!"
On June 17, 1963, in an act of judicial fiat that went against the will of the majority of Americans, the Supreme Court, with only Justice Potter Stewart dissenting, awarded victory to O’Hair and defeat to millions of religious Americans.
Perhaps is does not legally make a difference that O’Hair desired the destruction of this country and was a despicable individual. Or that the "hero" of another landmark decision of those years, Larry Flynt, was by his own admission "a scumbag." Or that Norma McCorvey, the true identity of Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade, now admits she was manipulated by others and profoundly regrets her part in the Court’s landmark ruling on abortion.
What should make a difference is the fact that these issues have not died down. If, almost forty years after a ruling, the issue still causes major conflict between large segments of society, perhaps the Court was the wrong place for the issue to be decided....
The foregoing was excerpted from Rabbi Daniel Lapin’s America’s Real War (Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah Publishers, 1999)— to whet your appetite for an absolutely great read. Do yourself a BIG favor: Buy this wonderful, eminently readable book!
BTW, whatever happened to Madalyn? Enquiring minds want to know! best wishes, bb.
Madeline disappeared with $100,000 a few years ago. The cops are debating if she stole it and moved to New Zealand, or if one of her associates killed her and buried her in a farm in Texas.
A lot of proof the ole' lady received the JUGDEMENT OF GOD.
She can not be found any place...it appears she is no longer on this earth...she is probably in "The Lake of Fire"....
she is probably in "The Lake of Fire"....
Ah, but Jesus died for her soul also. And she had a lot of people praying for her. If you read her son's autobiography, she chose to hate because she was abandoned by the one who made her pregnant, and she became bitter. May God have mercy on her poor soul. If she is dead, perhaps she repented in her last hour, like the Good Thief...
Spoken like a true believer....and as it says in Eph. 6:12, I stand corrected...I also know that none of us know what happens in that last few minutes before death...Jesus can easily appear and convict someone of their ways...how many times I have told others that...Thanks...
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