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| 2006-07-30 | ||
| by Michael Geer Given events in the Middle East and the near certainty of escalation, it’s time to name our enemy, because Israel is our canary in the mine of world events. And the canary is singing. Ever since Thomas Jefferson’s replied to the Danbury Baptists with the phrase wall of separation between church and state and James Madison penned “Strongly guarded . . . is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States.” and Ulysses S Grant called for Americans to “Keep the church and state forever separate” the policy of America has been to rest upon a foundation of respect for authentic religion and to shun the disaster of making religion our government. The Left in our nation, who make government their religion, have formed ranks around separation of church and state as a bedrock. A Google search of Separation Of Church And State yields 21,500,000 results. The larger percentage of those results are hardened secular positions, like Wall Builders, Suburban Guerillas and Americans United For Separation of Church and State. Many of these are not just Constitutional argument websites, but more secular and obdurate anti-Christian web sites. Fine. We’re a big nation. How does this relate to the current crisis between Israel and her enemies? The conflagration breaking out around the world like a fever coming to the fore, is religious. It’s not oil, it’s not haves and have-nots, it’s not Marxism versus Capitalism, it’s not Globalists versus independent free thinkers. It’s religion. It is a war to the death between those who stand for Religion as State, and those who will not live under their rule of religion as state policy. Oil is not that name. Oil is just a bargaining chip. Globalism is not that name. Globalism is only a sidebar. The virulent remnants of Marxism play a significant role in money and state-sponsored support, but Marxism is not the name. Our enemy, the enemy of civilization, and I dare say the enemy of Mankind itself is a religion which will kill, maim and terrorize any who will not accept religion as the State. Islam is the name. Islam was founded as a religion that is the state, where the state is the religion. The ultimate theocracy. There is no separation, no wall, no division. It is a seamless whole and any behavior is allowed to maintain that power. No crime is too gruesome, no argument too convoluted, no terror too shocking, and no theology too cancerous to be off limits in conquering the world for their god. They mean to have government be religion, and for religion to be government. Jihad is the mechanism by which all of mankind will be brought into to ummah, the world community of Islam. And only then will we know peace. I stand in shocked anger that those in America who work so hard for the separation of church and state are not horrified at the Islamist threat. Those who passionately insist on the separation of church and state ought to be on the front lines every day denouncing Islam and their global terror campaigns. making noise, agitating, pressing for Islam to be eradicated. But they aren’t denouncing Islam. Quite the opposite. They advocate eradicating George W Bush and the United States. This is madness beyond my ken. The very people inside our borders who work the hardest to see to it that America and Israel are ruined and kicked into the dust bin of history are the same people who take every opportunity to remind us about the separation of church and state. Are they not paying attention? Are they blind and deaf? Are they made dumb by their hate? I am truly flabbergasted that these separation people seem to have no concept that if Israel is cast down and if America is driven to her knees, they’re going to get a church that is the State in such totality as to defy description. And it won’t do for America to simply refrain from international affairs as if a disinterested observer. This is the kind of annihilating threat that must be stopped before it grows any larger. Acceptance and diversity are fine-sounding phrases, but not when we’re discussing the end of civilized man. A word of warning to our citizens who live on the Left side of the aisle, the anti-war crowd, the anti-globalist crowd, the anti-America crowd …. you say you are as separation of church and state as can be …. but what you’re going to reap is the soul crushing whirlwind of church as state and state as church if you don’t get a grip and wise up. You’re rooting for the worst kind of theocracy the world has ever seen, the kind that treats women as less than objects, that kills dissenters, whose distaste for homosexuals is literally beyond polite discussion, and whose Friday afternoon schedule is not cocktails but beheadings of those who take drugs, have sex out of wedlock, have a taste for pornography or show too much skin in public. Among the many crimes you now take for granted as your liberties. Islam is the zenith of religion as government, and government that is religion. Our friend Israel is on the front line of the war to determine the future of mankind. Religion as state, or secular freedom that guarantees religious freedom. Do you really want to bring to pass a murderous medieval theocracy? Is that the future you think you’ll enjoy? Is that the outcome you’re working for? Because if you keep tearing at our foundations and empowering this nation’s enemies, if you keep heaping scorn and invective on our President, if you insist that America is evil and must be radically assimilated into a metastasizing United Nations global plan, that’s exactly what you’re going to get and there will be no wall of separation. You will have torn it down.
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| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #15 Mis-applied metaphors aside, Mr Geer has articulated exactly what I was wondering about the idiotic left, and add my plaudits. This link is to the original letter from the Danbury Baptists to Jefferson, as well as his reply: It appears that they were being persecuted by the State established church, and were worried that the federal government would join in. Jefferson's reply has been partly taken out of context: the "wall" was not as much to protect the government from the church, but a wall to prevent the government from being taken over by a specific religious sect and used as a tool of persection of competing sects. This was the concern of many americans during the presidential candidacy of John F Kennedy. Am excellent post, Besoeker: a link to this will eventually go on my blog, for the record. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2006-07-30 19:50 |
| #14 And the Romans didn't think they'd lose to pre-iron Teutons. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-07-30 18:57 |
| #13 11A5S - good notes, but I'm not so sure we'll lose to pre-medieval Islam |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-07-30 18:47 |
| #12 Globalism is not that name. Globalism is only a sidebar. Actually, globalism is exactly what Islam is afraid of. Keeping Middle East Muslims disconnected from the outside world is one of their few means of maintaining power. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-07-30 18:28 |
| #11 Jihad is their last desperate hope to keep their culture and societies from being overwhelmed. They are really stuck. Every attempt to graft modernism on the Muslim tree has failed. Colonialism and Arab nationalism went nowhere. A few concrete plants were built and a few wars were launched, but nothing much came of any of it. The Israelis actually tried pretty hard to break the mold in the occupied territories and the intifadas were their reward. Our current projects in Afghanistan and Iraq might work if we had three generations to dick around and we were willing to kill off 10-20% of the male population in those places. Neither of those will prolly happen. So the Muslim's only hope is to either make us go away or to annihilate us. Making us go away won't work in a world of oil and satellite TV. I think that if they can overrun Europe, India, and SE Asia, they might be able to annihilate us. Get ready for Allah-dämerrung! |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-07-30 18:25 |
| #10 It is not US policy to beat Islamofascism by any necessary means. The policy is to prop political-Islam. Is it working? Somebody recently posted pictures of Egypt's Cabinet Ministers of their wives, one of which was current and the other from over a decade ago. Prior to 9-11 the women wore regular street clothing. Now the wives were wearing Islamic dress. The Muslim countries are Islamising, while the West denies the jihad component of same. |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-07-30 18:02 |
| #9 Not written by me, only posted. Michael G |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-07-30 13:22 |
| #8 Sorry, my mistake.....that should be Michael Geer, not Besoeker. Also, please excuse the mistake(s) in syntax, last night is still catching up with me. |
| Posted by: WolfDog 2006-07-30 12:00 |
| #7 Thoan and PBMcl,if you drop your overwhelming sense of grammatical and/or metophoric one up-man-ship, the overall sense of what Besoeker rings true. |
| Posted by: WolfDog 2006-07-30 11:57 |
| #6 sorry, grom. But antisemitism is the canary. Not all canaries die, mind you, but when a canary dies in a coal mine, it's an indicator that a major problem needs to be dealt with immediately.... or else... I don't know why...but when the cockroaches come from the baseboards and the worms crawl up from the ground to feast upon antisemitism, history has shown that we only have so much time left to act in order to avoid tragedy. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-07-30 09:21 |
| #5 Israel is our canary in the mine of world events. And the canary is singing. Personally, I'd like Israel to be considered a mantis shrimp. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-07-30 03:30 |
| #4 He had some good points, but that was the first thing i thought of too about the birds. When the birds quit singing that is when the trouble begins. :) |
| Posted by: djohn66 2006-07-30 01:26 |
| #3 Not to say he doesn't have some good points, though... |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2006-07-30 01:03 |
| #2 Dang. Beat me to it, Thoan. I had that clueless first line copied and ready. 'Journalism' is what you do when you can't cut it in the food service industry. |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2006-07-30 00:59 |
| #1 This is hysterically funny. "Israel is our canary in the mine of world events. And the canary is singing." When there is danger in the coal mine, the canary stops singing, and in fact, assumes room temperature. If the canary keeps singing, the mine is safe. (Methane gas is what silences the warbling winged one.) I don't think the author is saying Israel is safe. Apparently, the author is clueless when it comes to the use of metaphors. With metaphors like this, who needs enemies? |
| Posted by: Thoan 2006-07-30 00:36 |