Brain Fertilizer

One of the biggest problems I have with liberals, atheists, the ACLU and other lefty types is that they get this condescending attitude toward Christian belief systems and values, and ignore that the basis of their own views comes from an equally faith-based belief system and morality. If you promote the idea (as Planned Parenthood implicitly does) that "sex in all its expressions is good and shouldn't be repressed", that is imposing a morality as surely as saying "sex outside of marriage is bad and should be discouraged". Especially because with STDs, pregnancy, AIDS, emotional difficulties, rape, teenage prostitution, etc, there is far MORE evidence that the Christian view is more correct than the humanistic one.
If you believe there is no God and set about ensuring that is the only view that can be officially expressed, it is just as bad as saying that the only religious expression allowed is that Jesus is Lord of All!
But because they refuse to recognize atheism as a belief system, they believe that by denying they have a religion that it leaves them free to impose their belief system on the majority of Americans who believe in God. And the atheistic media helps them.
The part that atheists and secular humanists conveniently ignore is that whatever you put your faith into is your God. For some, it is money. For others, it is science. For still others, it is self, or sexual fulfillment, or education, or rejection of tradition.

Right now, the major God seems to be sexual fulfillment. It’s almost as if liberals want to replace Confirmation/Baptism with Losing Your Virginity, Attending Services with Having Sex, and you receive sanctification, not by Communion, but by having an Abortion.

Unless the pendulum swings back, I fear for my children and my grandchildren. I wonder if parents felt this way as Rome began its decline into debauchery?

Recently in the news was this legal decision, in which the ACLU argued (successfully) that since the Boy Scouts include "belief in 'God'" as one of its core values, meeting on government property violates "Separation of Church and State".
Well, in the Boy Scouts FAQ, the 'God' is most certainly not Christ. (thanks to Captain's Quarters for that link)

In a discussion with a friend who has worked with Boy Scouts quite a bit, the impression was that the Boy Scouts were a Christian group. Having been a Cub Scout, I never got that impression at all. Maybe every group has a different tone? But since many of the kids who went to Sunday School also were Scouts, and since many of the same adults who taught Sunday School were also the type to volunteer to lead a Troop, how possible is it that a prevalence of discussion of Jesus and Christian values was simply due to the majority of the people being Believers?

Yeah, it might not be good for someone in a minority to feel uncomfortable or left out. But compare that situation to this story of another example of belief systems being imposed on impressionable youth.

Excerpt:

There were a few scattered murmurs of agreement from the other adults as he spoke about how he just couldn't live in a country that was run by George W. Bush. He expected things would get "worse and worse" in the next few months until he'd be forced to leave. I noticed a few of the children turned around in their seats listening to this guy. They weren't saying anything, just taking it all in. I can only guess what a group of elementary-school kids, many of whom had moved here from other countries for a better life, were thinking when they heard that it might be time to pick up and leave again soon.

I have come to expect political chatter at events like this, and I have also come to expect that I will be the only Republican in the room.

Is there really any difference? If you follow the link and read the whole thing, you'll see an example of an even more forceful attempt to influence moral attitudes.

Liberals and atheists have some sort of paranoia about religion...maybe they too deeply internalized Marx's derisive opinion that it is the "opiate of the masses" or something. I won't deny that some horrible things have been done in the name of religion...but more horrible things have been done in the name of atheism, and politics, and greed. Most religions appeal to the better side of humanity, and don't allow for "conditional morality" as easily as atheism and progressive/liberal ideology does.

And one thing the rabid atheists and progressives forget is that multiple viewpoints and competing opinions tend to smooth things out. If they ever succeed in making Christianity a discredited belief as they seem to want to, the remaining "true believers" are more likely to be quite militant, extreme, and violent in the defense of their religion.

So understand it clearly: a belief system is a belief system is a belief system. It isn't right to impose yours on society at large, regardless of whether it is religion, politics, sexuality, morality, or even taste. I'm a little sick of religion being considered somehow worse than the others.