2009-10-19 America's secular saboteurs

2009-10-19 Bill Donohue Washington Post \Catholicism\American cultural polarization\atheism\Catholic victimhood\liberals hate America\multiculturalism\separation of church and state stifles religious freedom http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/secular_saboteurs.html America's secular saboteurs America's secular saboteurs  There are many ways cultural nihilists are busy trying to sabotage America these days: multiculturalism is used as a club to beat down Western civilization in the classroom; sexual libertines seek to upend the cultural order by attacking religion; artists use their artistic freedoms to mock Christianity; Hollywood relentlessly insults people of faith; activist left-wing legal groups try to scrub society free of the public expression of religion; elements in the Democratic party demonstrate an animus against Catholicism; and secular-minded malcontents within Catholicism and Protestantism seek to sabotage their religion from the inside.

Yesterday's radicals wanted to tear down the economic structure of capitalism and replace it with socialism, and eventually communism. Today's radicals are intellectually spent: they want to annihilate American culture, having absolutely nothing to put in its place. In that regard, these moral anarchists are an even bigger menace than the Marxists who came before them. In one paragraph he says artists mock Christianity, but then in the next paragraph he says "today's radicals" have no culture to replace it with. So apparently:
 * Christianity is essential to American culture (he essentially confirms this later when he says "the heart of any culture is religion" -- which is of course BS).
 * Culture is not created by artists, or at least not artists who aren't Christian.

The article makes many further attempts to demonize the forces of secularism:
 * tarring all attempts to enforce Separation as "left-wing" and against freedom of expression
 * Democrats hate Catholicism (psst... Ted Kennedy)
 * secularists are "malcontents" (playing into the conservative "liberal ennui" meme)
 * secularists want to "tear down", have nothing positive to offer
 * secularism is moral anarchy
 * equating atheism with Marxism

...and that's just the first two paragraphs.

&ldquo;Yesterday's radicals wanted to tear down the economic structure of capitalism and replace it with socialism, and eventually communism. Today's radicals are intellectually spent: they want to annihilate American culture, having absolutely nothing to put in its place.&rdquo;   