God Disappears In America - But European Radical Christianity And The Crusades Are Back!

Donald Trump has vowed to bring religion back to America, and a long haul it will be since during the progressive Biden years it was dismissed not only as irrelevant but obstructionist. The path to a verdant, compassionate, inclusive America must be cleared for running, he said, and no antediluvian Biblical injunctions or beliefs should stand in the way. 

'God would approve', said the Reverend Parsons Bonham of the Westmoreland United Methodist Church of Washington, referring to efforts to restore the black man to the top of the human pyramid, to make room for the gay, the lesbian, and the transgender, and to cool the planet

‘Jesus is among us', the Reverend went on, 'with us at the barricades for Palestinian rights, with us as we march with Black Lives Matter, and with us every single day of Pride Month'. 

This was what passed for religion every Sunday morning, fleeting references to the divine and only lip service given to the Ten Commandments, less divine injunctions than the first progressive canon. 

'Thou shalt not kill' was in clear reference to Israeli genocide. 'Honor thy father and mother' was a general plea for sexual diversity - the good Lord never specified to whom or how the honor should be given, and only the most generous and forgiving interpretation should stand. 

‘Thou shalt not have false gods before you' did not refer to the militantly anti-Christian Islam as it should have, but to the false gods of political conservatism.  Donald Trump in his arrogance, ego, and bellicose ambitions was the false god.

 

And so it went, the Reverend Bonham parsing every one of the Ten Commandments and finding a secular, progressive lesson therein.  In fact if religion had any relevance whatsoever it was in its dignifying support of 'compassionate inclusion'. 

If this wasn't bad enough - a miserable distortion of Biblical teaching and the words of Jesus Christ - one only had to attend services down street at the Bethesda First Unitarian Universalist Church, a place of ecumenical worship, progressive ideals, and grab-bag Christianity.  It, even more than the Westmoreland Church, cherry picked from the Bible for what it found most congenial to their secular mission. 

The rampaging Old Testament God, said Unitarians, was - and had been for centuries - irrelevant to the modern world.  His antics - the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, the Flood, and Sodom and Gomorrah, displays of a vindictive, angry divinity who should have known better when he created Man - were better left to mythologists and Jewish scholars. Unitarians looked only to the New Testament for inspiration and guidance. And even then, they dismissed the fabulist claims of miraculous cures, all sops to encourage membership in the new community of Christians. 

Religion in a short few decades in America had gone from the center of family and community life to an addendum, a remade, recalibrated, and reformed semblance of Christianity.  At the hands of progressives, such re-confection was only the first stop in elimination.  God never existed - Marx, Lenin, and Stalin had been right in one about the opiate of the people - and it was progressives' responsibility to finish the job - get rid of religion and God altogether.  Sitting around the campfire singing Kumbaya would replace Sunday mass. 

 

Enter Donald Trump who vowed to turn back secularism just as he had promised to consign Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) as nothing more than a weird, groundless, distortion of history and human nature. 'God is back', the President said, and no longer would faithful Americans have to relegate religion to second place in the American pantheon of values.  God would reign supreme once again, 

Yet, for all his good intentions the American President was not going far enough.  His was a gently accommodating plea when it was the the absolute commitment of Europe that should have been followed.  Conservative politicians in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, and Hungary have made it clear that Western European Christianity - the bedrock of its civilization - is being undermined by radical Islam, a religion which professes no tolerance for other religions on the conviction that it is the only true, last religion.  Liberal democracy is its enemy. 

America fortunately is awash only in poor Catholics from South America - gangbangers and rice-and-beans, but thank God no violent Muslims.  They're Europe's problem; but there is a lesson to be learned.  Christianity should be the bulwark against the secular infidel as well as the religious one. America should be armed with the Christian Bible and march along to the martial music of Onward, Christian Soldiers. 

'Racist', howl progressives who see the Trump resurrection of Christian values as dangerous and destructive, ignoring the sanctity and righteousness of the Muslim Palestinians who are fighting for a homeland in Allah's name. LePen, Meloni, Wilders, Duda, and Orban, however, call a spade a spade and see the disruptive, territorial, hegemonic ambitions of Islam for what they are.  Out, European leaders cry.  Europe is white and Christian, and we must fight to preserve its integrity. 

So, America without the infidel to fight, has been lackadaisical in its defense of European Christianity.  It is not enough to call out secularism for its rootless ambitions of inclusivity, and to encourage a return to our Enlightenment roots. There has to be some Sturm und Drang, some non-equivocal statement of fealty to Jesus Christ and his Jewish forbears.  Americans need something to hold on to.  A fight against some vague and passionless ideal is lost before it even begins. A Crusade against the bottom-rot of secularism is the new reality. 

Bob Muzelle, and old-line culture warrior and life-long progressive wanted none of it.  Despite his traditional religious upbringing and principled education, he had long seen religion as the enemy, the insidious insurrectionism in our ranks; so when Trump started banging about with talks of religious renewal Bob once again manned the barricades.  Not here, not now he shouted as caparisoned religious-themed drum majors made their way up Pennsylvania Avenue in the restored Easter parade; but he was drowned out by the faithfully reformed. 

Religion was back in America, and if it knew what was best for it, it would join in the new European crusades to defeat the armies of Muhammed and restore the supremacy of Jesus Christ.