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Limbaugh's Defamation of Secular Liberalism

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by Frank Wallis

An assessment of David Limbaugh, Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity. (Regnery Publishing, 2003.)

The author believes American Christians are being persecuted by liberal secular humanist homosexual separationists. Whew! Is that all? Here is a summary of findings and criticisms:

As a Bible Christian, Limbaugh cannot cope with the dominant trend in American religion and culture, which is pluralism. He enjoys American freedom, but can't wait to prohibit non-Bible-Christians from enjoying the same freedom.

The "original intent" fetish, which according to Limbaugh assumes that America must be a Christian republic, cannot be made into a religious doctrine imposed on all citizens anymore than the country can be forced into becoming an Islamic republic or a Mormon republic.

Limbaugh asserts the power of the First Amendment clause on free exercise of religion, but ignores the equal power of the same amendment's prohibition of established religion.

He astonishingly writes that he is not advocating a "return to Christian-oriented education", but spends two thirds of the book arguing for the exact same thing.

One powerful theme of Persecution is thus a lamentation that public schools are no longer Christian. They are secular humanist, which violates the religious freedom rights of Christians. Limbaugh fails to offer a single suggestion as to how this bipolar miracle of non-secular non-Christian education is to be achieved.

No discussion of persecution would be complete without a mention of the Pledge of Allegiance, which clearly states "under God". For Limbaugh this is an innocuous term, harmless, innocent, and not really about religion. Yet, it would be persecution to delete the phrase.

Toleration is seen by Christians not as a good thing, but a bad thing, against Christianity. To tolerate other religions is persecution of Christians.

Limbaugh thinks sex ed is a form of persecution of Christians. It is tied to the "homosexual agenda" promoted by the NEA, the Democrats, and liberals who are in league with the "homosexual lobby".

Limbaugh's Great Satan is the concept of "post-modernism", which he describes as tolerance, openness, and diversity. Post-modernism is not true. Christianity is true. Therefore teaching post-modernism is persecution of Christians.

Remember, it is persecution of Christians to remove or prohibit Ten Commandment megaliths on public property, which endorse slavery, forbid statues and graphic images, forbid employment on Sunday, and above all else orders people to worship the Christian god and none other. Again, the Christians assert this is not religious. It is secular. Black is white, and white is black.

As for crosses on public property, there is nothing in the Constitution, again according to the logic of Limbaugh, forbidding the President from ordering that a crucifix be placed on all army helmets, jet fighters, and navy ships.

Scandalous plays are performed in New York and religion is mocked. Attacks on Christianity are often by "homosexual forces". Can you detect a pattern here?

Limbaugh claims that Founders such as James Madison and Thomas Jefferson supported the Bible Christian plan for a Christian America. Wallis debunks this preposterous myth.

We have no established religion in America, and by all accounts religion thrives, as the Bible Christians keep telling us.

In response to Limbaugh's unhistorical analysis, it should be noted that the model for American government was not the Bible. If so, then the Founders might have established a hereditary monarchy, and a national religion with government priests, as ancient Israel had done.

America needs a liberal dose of liberalism, not a return to a fantasy land of ecclesiastical tyranny.

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