Sunday, October 13, 2019

Barr On Secularism's "Organized Destruction"

I think it's obvious that Barr is right about this bit (but not some other stuff he said):
   “This is not decay,” Barr said. “This is organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion and traditional values.”
   Barr said state governments and municipal agencies have been at the vanguard of that effort, noting the board of education in Orange County, California, recently decided religious dissenters may not excuse their children from portions of the school curriculum broaching LGBT issues. Schools are the usual forum for attacks on religious liberty, Barr said.
I tend to be on the other side of these issues. I don't think religion is necessary for morality, nor that its absence necessarily leads to moral decay. So with respect to those core issues, I'm a "secularist."
   But I do agree that the left is seeking to destroy traditional American culture. I think that could hardly be clearer. It doesn't seek to argue and convince, but to silence and crush. And it moves ever more rapidly toward that goal.
   Like me, you probably abhor talk of "Civil War 2". But a conservative friend of mine says that folks on my side ought to at least be able to understand why people on the right have begun talking about it. They have reason--good reason--to believe that their (and our) culture is being destroyed, and that the democratic institutions that are supposed to allow them to protect themselves have been coopted by the destroyers. What should be decided by legislation is instead decided by the courts. They are being told that they must accept outright contradictions like "some men are female." Huge numbers of illegal immigrants are permitted to flood the country, thus irrevocably shifting the demographics in favor of the destroyers. The destroyers control all the powerful institutions. Those on the receiving end of the destruction are--as part of the effort--the recipients of non-stop propaganda against them, denigrating them and representing them as morons and bigots.
   If the left were urging the right to enter into a free and open discussion about cultural change, that would be one thing--I favor such discussions. But that's not what's happening. Rather, the left is engaged in a full-court press to force even its most recent, most outlandish, most implausible whims onto everyone else. If the right is talking about violent backlash against this, I may not agree...but I am beginning to understand.

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