Horowitz - DARK AGENDA: the war to destroy christian america

DARK
AGENDA

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Dark Agenda

Copyright 2018 by David Horowitz

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To April

For making these years

the happiest of my life,

and

To my Christian buddies,

Peter, Wally, and Mike

for making me a better man

The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field, the object is obtained, and it now remains to be my earnest wish and prayer, that the Citizens of the United States would make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings, placed before them.

G EORGE W ASHINGTON , 1783

Contents

Acknowledgments

I WANT TO THANK C HRIS Ruddy for coming up with the idea for this book and choosing me to write it; and John Perazzo, Elizabeth Ruiz, and Sara Dogan for helping me to research it. Jim Denney did yeomans work as an editor, not only keeping the author honest, but making his prose more accessible to others, while providing choice anecdotes that made this books argument clearer and more powerful.

Religion Must Die

O N S UNDAY MORNING , N OVEMBER 5, 2017, a gunman walked into the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. He wore tactical gear and a black face mask marked with a white skull, and he carried a semiautomatic rifle. He shot and killed two people outside the church, then went inside, walking up and down the aisle, cursing and shooting people in the pews. He reloaded again and again, emptying fifteen magazines of ammunition.

When the gunman emerged from the church, he found an armed citizen facing him from across the streeta former NRA firearms instructor named Stephen Willeford. The two men exchanged fire, and Willeford hit the gunman in the leg and upper body. The wounded shooter limped to his car and sped away. He was later found at the wheel of his crashed car, killed by a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.

The attack killed twenty-six people, ages five to seventy-two, and wounded twenty. The killer had been court-martialed in the Air Force for domestic violence (he had beaten his wife and cracked the skull of his infant stepson). The Air Force failed to report his conviction to the FBIs crime information database.

The slaughter of unarmed Christians in a church sanctuary was a cowardly attack on one church. But what happened after the church shooting was part of a wider war by the political left against Christians and Christianity.

As news of the shooting broke, prominent Christians took to Twitter and urged fellow believers to pray. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, a devout Roman Catholic, tweeted, Reports out of Texas are devastating. The people of Sutherland Springs need our prayers right now.

From Hollywood to New York and Washington, the left responded with a chorus of jeers and insults. Former MSNBC political commentator Keith Olbermann suggested in a tweet that Speaker Ryan should proctologize himself with his prayers. Seattle Democrat, Representative Pramila Jayapal, tweeted, They were praying when it happened. They dont need our prayers. They need us to address gun violence.... Comedian Paula Poundstone sneered: If prayers were the answer to mass shootings, wouldnt people at a church service be safe? Actor Wil Wheaton tweeted, The murdered victims were in a church. If prayers did anything, theyd still be alive, you worthless sack of....

These and other comments from the secular left displayed not only a smug disdain for Christians but an amazing ignorance of how religious Christians view prayer. Christians dont view prayer as a magic incantation to make themselves bulletproof. Christians believe in the teachings of Christ who warned them: In the world ye shall have tribulation. In the Garden of Gethsemane Christ prayed to be delivered from the agony of the cross, but he ended his prayer, nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. The answer to Christs prayer was silenceand he was later crucified on a Roman cross.

In her commentary on the church shooting, MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid tweeted that when Jesus of Nazareth came upon thousands of hungry people, he didnt pray; he fed the people. Shes simply wrong. Matthew 14:19 records that, before Jesus fed the people, he looked heavenward and prayed. Jesus prayed and he acted. Thats how his followers still view prayer. They pray and they act. At around the same time Joy-Ann Reid was tweeting, the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team was already in action, rolling into Sutherland Springs with sixteen chaplains to comfort grieving families and help meet their material needs. Two days after the shooting, the Southern Baptist Convention announced it would pay all funeral expenses for the twenty-six slain churchgoers.

Because this is a world made by flawed human beings, it will continue to be a world of tribulations. There will be more shootings, attacks, fires, floods, earthquakes, and other tragedies. Christians will call for prayer, and leftists will mock them for it, imagining there are solutions that can perfect this life, and regarding Christians as the enemies of that perfection.

The War

Since its birth in the fires of the French Revolution, the political left has been at war with religion, and with the Christian religion in particular. In a symbolic revolutionary act, the Jacobin leaders of the French Revolution changed the name of the Cathedral of Notre Dame to the Temple of Reason. Then, in the name of reason, they proceeded to massacre the inhabitants of the Vende region of west central France because its citizens were Catholics.

This has been called the first modern genocide, but it was far from the last. Karl Marx famously described religion as the opium of the people and the sigh of the oppressed. Inspired by his hatred ever since, revolutionaries have regarded religion as the enemy of progress and the mask of oppression. In Russia, Marxs disciples removed religious teaching from the schools, outlawed criticism of atheists and agnostics, and burned 100,000 churches. When priests demanded freedom of religion, they were sentenced to death. Between 1917 and 1935, 130,000 Russian Orthodox priests were arrested, 95,000 of whom were executed by firing squad.

Radicals in America today dont have the political power to execute religious people and destroy their houses of worship. Yet they openly declare their desire to obliterate religion. In their own minds, their intentions are noblethey want to save the human race from the social injustice and oppression that religion allegedly inflicts on humanity.

Religion must die in order for mankind to live, proclaimed left-wing commentator and comedian Bill Maher in Religulous, the most-watched documentary feature of 2008.

According to Maher, The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end. He predicts the destruction of the human race as a result of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism. Hence the need for religion to die if mankind is to live. Mahers views accurately reflect the attitudes of a movement called the New Atheism, whose leaders are prominent scientists and best-selling authors, far superior in intellect to Maher but equally contemptuous of religion and religious believers. Like Mahers film, the New Atheism movement seeks to discredit all religious belief by caricaturing its adherents as simpletons, and worse. The stated goal of the New Atheism is to delegitimize and extinguish the religious point of view.