If you want to fine Catholic hospitals for following Catholic teaching, or prevent Jewish parents from circumcising their sons, or ban Chick-fil-A in Boston, then don\u2019t tell religious people that you respect our freedoms. Say what you really think: that the exercise of our religion threatens all that\u2019s good and decent, and that you\u2019re going to use the levers of power to bend us to your will.<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\nIf you go to websites of the Left, or not a few atheist websites, you will see such swill in all its glory.\u00a0 Time and again, they will insist there is nothing wrong with any of these encroachments.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because nobody is telling\u00a0 religious types they can\u2019t \u2018believe what they want.\u2019\u00a0 No, they\u2019re telling religious types that they cannot practice what they believe. <\/p>\n
But Douthat says it best.\u00a0 Let\u2019s be honest that liberalism is no such thing.\u00a0 It is simply a revolutionary world view that sees the traditional Western theistic tradition in the same way Western theists saw the Aztecs or cannibals of the Pacific islands.\u00a0 And thanks to the Supreme Court\u2019s spin on the First Amendment, a growing number of people believe that religion has a right to exist silently in a person\u2019s mind,\u00a0but nowhere else in modern, secular, progressive society.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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