WorldNetDaily continued to complain that its preferred right-wing brand of Christianity isn’t being pushed by government in an anonymously written June 23 article:
A new study has confirmed that libraries and publishers are working on cleaning Christianity out of the American story.
The study, from publisher Brave Books, was called “The America 250 Faith Gap” and reviewed more than 300 books from 25 reading lists assembled by children’s publishers, libraries and others.
Among those so-called “top” books there were no titles directly addressing faith, explained a New York Post report on the results.
Nor were there titles directly addressing religious liberty and Christianity’s role in the founding of the U.S.
That’s even though the First Amendment deals specifically with religious rights.
The anonymous writer doesn’t mention the fact that Brave Books is a right-wing publisher — specifically, “a Christian publishing company that makes books for kids that reinforce biblically-based, foundational values” — so of course it would complain that Christianity is not being pushed.
This led to a July 6 column by David Kupelian that is an excerpt from his book “The Marketing of Evil” similarly whining that Christianity is not being forced upon students:
It meant an implicit and heartfelt agreement to abide not only by the nation’s laws, but by its hidden, unwritten “laws” as well – the principles that made up the invisible but vital fabric of Western Civilization: the individual as citizen-sovereign; a balance of freedom and responsibility; unlimited opportunity – to succeed or fail; independence and self-reliance; tolerance; the work ethic; equality under the law; and other core Judeo-Christian values.
Underlying all of this, in turn, was the common belief – a belief so deep and unquestioned that it underpinned all of our major institutions – that there is a God, that He is the God of the Bible, that the 10 Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are the foundation of a good life and a great society, and that America had been uniquely blessed by that God. These were the underlying assumptions infusing America’s dominant culture.
All that started to change in the 1960s. Actually, the nation’s moral and cultural foundation had been under attack for decades, but the ’60s is when the attacks literally spilled out into America’s streets, resulting in unprecedented cultural chaos by decade’s end.
Kupelian was appalled at the idea that students were being taught that black people exist:
Despite the fact that America had long-since forsaken slavery, and – thanks to the movement led by Martin Luther King Jr., which culminated in the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act – had outlawed segregation and made great strides in moving beyond racism altogether, a demand for “black studies” nevertheless arose in the nation’s colleges.
The idea was that past denigration and mistreatment of blacks necessitated special emphasis on their culture and accomplishments. “Black pride” was born and “black studies,” “black history” and the like proliferated through the nation’s university campuses.
Although most people didn’t comprehend it at the time, “black pride” and similar “liberation movements” did not arise out of the mainstream of the Civil Rights Movement, which had arrived, in King’s famous “I have a dream” speech, at the ultimate solution to racism: the “color-blind” society where people would “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” This enlightened vision of America – which would have completed the promise of the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” – was hijacked by forces of the ’60s radical left. These were people who did not want peace and racial harmony. They condemned racial integration as “Uncle Tomism” and “co-optation.” Their aim was to indict America as a racist oppressor as a means to foment division, revolution and societal transformation.
But all this was off the radar of most Americans, who, under the sway perhaps of the nation’s collective guilt over slavery and segregation, cautiously accepted “black studies.”
From there, Kupelian moved quickly to Islamophobia:
Despite the fact that multiculturalism has rewritten history, demonized Western culture, and turned civilization on its head for a generation, Americans for the most part floated along with this charade, year after confusing year – until September 11, 2001. The otherworldly shock and horror that we experienced on that particular Tuesday morning was followed by a crash course in radical Islam – a very strange and menacing culture indeed. We learned that those who wantonly murdered thousands of American civilians and threatened even greater destruction justified their acts as being required of them by Allah. We learned that shaheeds (martyrs) – those Muslims who die while killing infidels (unbelievers, primarily Jews but also Christians and Americans generally) in jihad or holy war – are indoctrinated, often from an early age, by radical Islamic clerics.
And what is the jihad message taught in so many mosques and madrassas (religious schools) throughout the Middle East? Just this: As soon as the first drop of your blood is shed in jihad, you will feel no pain, all your sins will be forgiven, and you will be transported instantly to paradise where you will recline comfortably for eternity on plush green cushions, to be lavished with the choicest meats, the finest wines and endless sex with seventy virgins. In addition, all of your family members will be admitted into heaven as part of your reward.
Kupelian’s solution for this, of course, is insisting that America follow the same brand of right-wing Christianity that he does:
Can we get the real America back? Only time will tell. But if we do, it very likely will be due to the efforts of the current generation, which still has some memory of the real America.
The “great melting pot” – E. pluribus unum – depended on an ideal. But the melting pot has become corrupted without this guiding spirit. Millions now residing here are not loyal to American values. Rather than unified and “color-blind,” the nation is divided and segregated. On top of everything else, America literally has been invaded and we are at war.
Of course Kupelian believes anyone who’s not a right-wing Christian like himself is not a “real” American.