American Revolution 2.0 - Secularism is Not America's Religion

We’ve voiced our view that what is really going on in America in 2009 is not an economic crisis but a crisis of Christian faith and confidence. This is in fact a theme that runs through and is addressed in many of our essays (see these, especially). A people rooted in a living, practicing faith in God are not fooled by men, and they are not beguiled by secularism. The founding fathers of America were so rooted, and their Revolution was inspired by it. The second American Revolution will also be inspired by it.

In awake America, it doesn’t matter how smooth any man talks; doesn’t matter what his skin color is; and it doesn’t matter if he claims to be a new messiah. Awake Americans are not fooled—they are offended and instantly opposed to such a blatant fraud.

And if by some bizarre confluence of events such a man actually achieved a position of public authority and started proposing a radical, secularist, government-as-god re-ordering of the Judeo-Christian nation they know so well, such people would not buy it for even one instant. They instinctively know the deadening, dispiriting nature of secularism (which Dennis Prager describes so well, here).

There are plenty of Americans who are ‘people rooted in a living, practicing faith in God’, who ‘are not fooled by men’, and were never fooled by Barack Obama. And they are up in arms now about what is happening to their country. But our media does not know these people; does not understand them; and does not report on them. Our media has been populated by godless intellectualism and secularism for decades; as a result, they were both ignorant of and fooled by Obama; they supported him almost unanimously, and they paved the way for the defrauding of the broader American electorate in 2008.

We think even now that a majority of the American people are awake to the fraud, but they aren’t quite sure of what to do about it due to the media’s continued state of mindless adulation of all things Obama—and the media’s seemingly limitless ability to concoct and produce ‘popularity polls’ to suggest that there’s still a bunch of Americans somewhere who approve of this fraud. But sooner or later, and we think it will be very soon, there will be a critical mass of people who are going to see the Pravda media for the paper tigers that they are, and are no longer going to be persuaded or influenced or intimidated by anything that they report. They will trust their own intuition and judgment; and they will once and for all call “BS” on the entire Obama agenda. We don’t know what the triggering event will be, and we can’t predict the exact steps that will mark the end of this agenda, but we do predict it will happen.

There’s a decent possibility that the triggering event has already occurred in the release of the so-called ‘torture memos’. Pravda’s narrative—“Bush was evil; his actions made us no better than our enemies; we can gather information in other ways (always unspecified)”— simply does not connect with the American people. It does not connect with common sense—on September 12, 2001 and for months and years thereafter, the American people wanted their government doing anything and everything to stop another attack. And it most assuredly does not connect with the basic Christian awareness that there is a difference between good and evil, and good must be protected, and evil confronted and defeated, if we are to have progress for humanity. Pravda is oblivious to this disconnect and marches forward with its narrative relentlessly. Obama continues to stoke it, now planning to release interrogation photos to try to get an Abu Ghraib bounce to his position. But in just a couple of short essays, Thomas Sowell and Bruce Walker put the lie to Obama and Pravda’s narrative, in terms just about anyone can understand. Read them, here and here.

Another triggering event, though it may seem unrelated, is the Pravda-enabled controversy surrounding Miss California Carrie Prejean, who lost out on the Miss USA title when in response to a gotcha question she affirmed her Christian-based belief that marriage is between a man and a woman. Probably more than 90% of American’s believe exactly the same thing, but the Pravda narrative tried to make her and her answer ‘controversial’. To her everlasting credit, she has stood her ground.

And the silver lining for America is that Pravda has stood its ground. By doing so, they are transparently seen as hell-bent to sell the American people on the virtues of secularism, while scoffing and spewing at a young girl who has the courage of the Christian convictions shared by most of the people in this country. Hell-bent may be a good description of where Pravda’s editorial biases are leading it (in terms of bankruptcy), but they are not making the sale with the American people. Again, the Pravda narrative just isn’t connecting, but they push it relentlessly. This is the kind of thing that propels a majority to finally say, ‘enough is enough’. And then things can change for the better.

Secularism is not the foundational religion of America; Christianity is. It is the love, mercy and forgiveness of Christianity that has led to the more generous and tolerant society the world has ever seen; it is secularism that promotes vitriolic, hateful intolerance of whatever is not godless (just ask Perez Hilton). Secularism not only leads to hell; it is hell.

So how is it that we can be so confident that Obama and his radical secularism won’t prevail, and that the crisis of Christian faith will be overcome? Simple: secularism has nothing behind it; Christianity does. It’s called God. And believe it or not, humans can experiment with lots of ‘isms’, but they don’t get to decide what prevails. Truth does. To the extent humans approximate truth’s ideas—and the founding fathers succeeded in this regard more than any other group of people before or since—they can be safe, prosperous and progressing. The only way to return to an America that is safe, prosperous and progressing is to return to those founding ideals, including the foremost ideal of individual freedom and responsibility under God. Obama is not only turning away from those ideals; he is actively undermining them. He and his agenda are inevitably going to fail. The only question is how soon and at what cost to society.

If enough Americans rouse themselves from their sleep and apathy and yell “NO!”, the agenda will collapse and the turnaround will happen much sooner than anyone thinks, and at less cost.

Paul Gable

Posted May 12, 2009