My early morning chuckle came via a repaste of Daniel Lapin's wingnut screed, "A rabbi's warning to U.S. Christians."Here me now, Rabbi. The spate of anti-Christian books of late is the backlash against the last six years of meshuggenah right wing ranting and raving.
If you guys can ever calm down, the tone of civil discourse can be restored.
There is no war on Christianity and/or American civilization.
(Isn't Rabbi Lapin the one who gave all those awards to the notorious Jack Abramoff?)
Here is the pithy part of his screed:
Considerably more intellectual energy is being pumped into the propaganda campaign against Christianity than was ever delivered to the anti-smoking or anti-drunk-driving campaigns. Fervent zealots of secularism are flinging themselves into this anti-Christian war with enormous fanaticism.
If they succeed, Christianity will be driven underground, and its benign influence on the character of America will be lost. In its place we shall see a sinister secularism that menaces Bible believers of all faiths. Once the voice of the Bible has been silenced, the war on Western Civilization can begin and we shall see a long night of barbarism descend on the West.
Without a vibrant and vital Christianity, America is doomed, and without America, the West is doomed.
Which is why I, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, devoted to Jewish survival, the Torah and Israel am so terrified of American Christianity caving in.
Many of us Jews are ready to stand with you. But you must lead. You must replace your timidity with nerve and your diffidence with daring and determination. You are under attack. Now is the time to resist it.
4 comments:
It's been said, "If you spot it, you got it."
You've noticed a lot of ranting over the past year or so. Here are some examples:
"Two opinions in the aforesaid paper rant on the subject (of gay rights)."
"Prager refused to apologize for his nonsensical rant."
"He (Prager) ranted and raved without an iota of substance about a new congressman (Ellison)."
"And I must say that JP writers like Caroline Glick -- she must be on the Hezbollah payroll to publish a rant that calls this war, "An unmitigated disaster."
"The spate of anti-Christian books of late is the backlash against the last six years of meshuggenah right wing ranting and raving."
--- And I've noticed it in you. I guess that means you and I are in the same boat.
"(Isn't Rabbi Lapin the one who gave all those awards to the notorious Jack Abramoff?)"
If Rabbi Lapin gave Abramoff an award after he knew what Abramoff was up to, then your question is fair. But if it was before he knew, then it would be unfair.
Is that a picture of Lapin? He doesn't appear Orthodox to me.
The picture is of another nut, cited by Lapin, Jean-Francois Revel, who wrote a book called "How Democracies Perish."
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