by Stefan Stanford, All News Pipeline:
For many decades, the left in America has interpreted the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a manner that is inherently hostile to religion, particularly to the Christian faith.
An example of the left’s adversarial interpretation of the separation of church and state is the recent decision by U.S. district judge John W. deGravelles, who has ruled that the Ten Commandments are not to be displayed in Louisiana’s public schools. He has declared the public display to be a coercive establishment of religion.
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It is hard to overemphasize the importance of Judge deGravelles’s ruling, following as it does the multi-generational assault on Christianity as well as the other monotheistic faiths revering the Ten Commandments.
Historically, when and wherever the left holds the reins of power, the advocates of atheism will attack Christians, as Pope Pius XI noted in his 1937 encyclical concerning atheistic communism.
The ’30s saw the height of the Moscow show trials and the purges that eliminated or sent to gulags millions of Soviet citizens, many of them Orthodox Christians. Those years also saw the acceleration of materialistic atheism in Russian classrooms and an increase in anti-religious efforts in Russia as well as in other nations in which Bolshevism was nascent or ascendant.
As the pope noted, “this all too imminent danger … is bolshevistic and atheistic Communism, which aims at upsetting the social order and at undermining the very foundations of Christian civilization.”
The communist campaigns against the Christian foundations of the West remain a constant in Europe, America, and present-day China.
In the United States, Christianity has seen the Judiciary assault people of faith.
Prayer and Bible reading in public schools was abolished in 1962, when the Supreme Court ruled in Engel v. Vitale that school-sponsored prayer in public schools is unconstitutional. The decision attacked the foundational belief of all three monotheistic religions that there is a transcendent Creator to whom children of all ages pray.
In 1973, SCOTUS’s Roe v. Wade decision ruled that the constitution of the United States protected women’s right to have abortions, thus rendering protection of the unborn children null and void. The decision utterly degraded the value of human life, which was no longer to be regarded as having intrinsic worth given it by its Creator, but rather to be seen as a merely material entity subject to another’s or the State’s power to eliminate at will.
In 2015, the highest court’s Obergefell v. Hodges vitiated the Jewish and Christian idea of marriage as the union between a man and a woman by ruling that same-sex couples have the same right to marry as opposite-sex couples do. The decision was a ruling that overruled all civilizations’ bedrock foundation of family, a pre-civilizational unit. In addition, the decision fostered the extreme left’s idea of equality as elimination of distinctions, including the obvious distinction between man and woman. Hence the rise of advocacy of the trans movement and its manifold deleterious effects on our children — within the very walls of our public schools.
The bottom line is that leftists in America have essentially sought to drive Christianity out of the civic square and thus to eventually eliminate it from the national discourse and influence. As Pius XI wrote, the left always seeks to eliminate what it considers the enemy of religion to establish a godless utopia: “[all] other forces whatever, as long as they resist such systematic violence, must be annihilated as hostile to the human race.”
Joseph Stalin put it even more bluntly: “The Party cannot be neutral towards the bearers of religious prejudices, towards the reactionary clergy who poison the minds of the toiling masses. Have we suppressed the reactionary clergy? Yes, we have. The unfortunate thing is that it has not been completely liquidated.”
The rejection of the universally applicable and generally accepted moral standard summarized by the Ten Commandments means that no person is subject to a higher authority and that lawfare is waged solely by means of sheer personal power and control of institutional levers. Both are then employed to control and persecute those who do not bow down to the almighty State and its self-anointed rulers. The self-appointed cognoscenti rely on infallible internal illumination that supposedly grants divination into the true nature of the law, which is regarded as evolving in a progressive direction that renders the bases of divine and natural law null and void.
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