The Foundational Malady Diagnosed
When we observe secular militants without knowing their intentions, we arrive at faulty conclusions. Their determination is rooted in the fact that morality, the traditional family, and belief in God firmly undermine the power of hierarchical authoritarians. For them, deception in pursuit of their atheistic world is a virtue.
Robert Chandler writes about David Horowitz' testimony before the Kansas House of Representatives regarding "academic freedom." Horowitz said: "Entire academic departments and fields are no longer devoted to scholarly pursuits, but have become ideological training and recruitment centers for radical causes." The departments most suspect are economics, health, history, English, political science, sociology, psychology and anthropology. Add to these departments women's studies, queer studies, black liberation studies, Islamic studies, third-world studies, global warming studies, and so on--you get the picture (Robert Chandler, PhD, with experience in the Department of Defense, State, and the Central Intelligence Agency, Shadow World, One Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, 2008).
David Horowitz writes later in his book Radical Son, "The Marxists and socialists who had been refuted by historical events are now the tenured establishment of the academic world. Marxism had produced the bloodiest and most oppressive regimes in human history" (New York: Free Press, 1997). Citations are from the September 2010 Journal by Dr. David A. Noebel, published by Summit Ministries, Manitou Springs, CO.
By far the greatest peril to America today is internal. It is the secular militants' war against traditional American values. This started when taxpayer-funded universities foolishly caved in to the demand for the old European secular policy of unionization and teachers' independence (tenure guarantees). Now contemporary liberals gleefully impose their God-rejecting approach to life upon the minds of American youth even in lower-level public schools.
Abraham Lincoln understood that it was the dangers from within America, not from the outside, that could destroy America. He stated: "What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."*
Ronald Reagan contributes more insight to this grave topic in remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered on August 23, 1984 in Dallas, Texas: "Without God, there is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we're mired in the material, the world that tells us only what the senses perceive… And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."**
*Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois, September 11, 1858, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collective Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 3 (Boston: 1935), 91-96. This speech is one of several Lincoln made against slavery, http://www.classicreader.com/book/3766/17/
**http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganecumenicalprayer.htm
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