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February 09, 2019
Moving beyond Judeo-Christianity [KT]![]() Photo above: One example of our current Western Civilization, promoted by sophisticates at Tate Modern. See first comment. Heh. Aren't you thrilled that we have moved beyond the benighted artwork of, say, the Sistine Chapel? In his Thursday Morning Report, J.J. Sefton linked a piece by Victor Davis Hanson on the return of ancient prejudices. It started by describing old prejudices in the USA: The stereotyped hatreds were battled by the melting-pot forces of assimilation, integration and intermarriage. Civil rights legislation and broad education programs gradually convinced the country to judge all Americans on the content of their characters rather than the color of their skins or their religious beliefs. And over the last half-century, the effort to end institutional bias against African-Americans largely succeeded. Prominent among these are prejudices against Jews and against serious Christians, particularly Catholics (at the moment). Progressive senators such as Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) have attacked judicial nominees on grounds that they are Catholic, apparently because the Catholic Church and its affiliates officially disprove of abortion and gay marriage. This made me think of a quote from 1978, a little over 40 years ago. I ran across it on Facebook. It's from an official in the LDS church, the late Neal A. Maxwell: We are now entering a period of incredible ironies. Let us cite but one of these ironies which is yet in its subtle stages: we shall see in our time a maximum if indirect effort made to establish irreligion as the state religion. It is actually a new form of paganism that uses the carefully preserved and cultivated freedoms of Western civilization to shrink freedom even as it rejects the value essence of our rich Judeo-Christian heritage. . . That was forty years ago. Now we hear "the dogma lives loudly within you". No longer covert. No longer subtle. In the piece linked above, VDH also wrote: And what fuels the return of American bias is the new idea that citizens can disparage or discriminate against other groups if they claim victim status and do so for purportedly noble purposes. Perhaps the recent virulent form of this disparagement or discrimination is new. The current overwhelming cultural crusade to get people to judge others on the basis of their membership in a victim (or persecutor) group has given the crusaders a sense of righteousness. But the slower campaign to reject the value essence of our rich Judeo-Christian heritage has been ongoing for some time among the intellectual classes. Watch for additional articles on this general topic in J.J. Sefton's Morning Reports right here on this page. Here's another example from Wednesday: 32 religious groups on probation for alleged discrimination at the University of Iowa. Do you think that the Justice Department under Obama would have filed a statement in support of the religious groups? Yesterday, a judge blocked the university's action. A win for religious freedom. The details of both pieces are interesting. Thirty-two groups! The modern university is not real open to heretics from the new secular religion. I expect they wouldn't want to hear much about the charitable work of Mark Tapscott's Baptist group, either. Note on the Green New Deal The resolution may have seemed insane, and it may have been filled with typos, but I think Neo is right. It appealed to the activist base which appreciates the "spirit" of the resolution, allowing Democratic presidential candidates to connect with them. Isn't it very very extreme, so extreme it will alienate people? For the answer, just do what I did: spend a few hours reading MSM sites and seeing reactions from Democrats. It's an education in how the GND is being responded to, and why the Democratic candidates have all hopped aboard the extremist green social justice jobs for everyone train. Isn't that "spirit" stuff sort of religious language? The resolution moved the Overton Window. And it will make future Democratic proposals seem reasonable. Neo will be writing more. What do you think?
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