Madder than ever

One of the more potent (and predictable) side effects of forcibly removing religion from public life, public conversation, and yes, public schools, is that society gradually loses touch with the religious dimensions of life.

We forget how to talk about faith... we misinterpret other people’s religious actions and conversation... we underestimate faith’s powerful influence in the lives of those who still take their deepest beliefs seriously.

And, of course, what we cannot understand, we usually begin to fear.

And the things which unsettle us... often begin to make us angry.

Perhaps that explains the increasingly open and unrelenting fury of the Left toward Christians, as rant after rant erupts in a variety of venues:

  • The savage soundbites on NBC’s new ‘Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip,” in which Aaron Sorkin’s characters liken Christians to the Ku Klux Klan and deride them as both wild-eyed doomsday-ers and ignorant bigots from inconsequential corners of the American landscape.

  • The recent virulent Rosie O’Donnell outburst, as she explained to the audience of ‘The View’ why Christians are even more dangerous than Muslim terrorists.

  • The increasingly aggressive efforts of university administrations to drive Christian student groups from campus, usually on the premise that Christians are “intolerant” of homosexual behavior and that religious activities are inherently divisive.

  • The escalating effort to remove crosses erected on government property to memorialize the sacrifices of fallen servicemen and police officers – lest some atheist passer-by take offense.

  • The inscrutable decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which ruled that Christians can’t meet in a private room at a public library because they might start studying the Bible or singing hymns... and religion isn’t considered free speech, on public property.

    But if it’s one thing for the Left to demand that Christians check their faith at the door, it’s another to ask us to check our minds. The defiant refusal of so many leaders in our courts, our schools, and our media to acknowledge the reality of religious faith is translating not only into aggressive attacks, but into almost laughably bad logic.

    Consider: