Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against Christians 
asked by 90210 on November 3, 2006 3:28 PM
A wake up call to lovers of liberty everywhere and a call to action to conservatives and Christians to defend the religious freedom envisioned and practiced by the founders.
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How can someone possibly manage to fill a 400-page book with example after example of Christians being persecuted in the United States? Only if there happens to be a whole lot of cases of Christian persecution. And that is just what Limbaugh demonstrates in this frightening but much-needed book.
He makes it quite clear that Christians are regularly being vilified, abused, threatened, maligned and discriminated against, especially by the ruling elites. Thus our media, our schools, our courts, our governments and our entertainers seem to have declared open season on the followers of Jesus.
Ironically, most of the persecution is coming from those who shout the loudest about toleration and acceptance. The various radical activists and trendy lobby groups are keen on acceptance - when it comes to their causes - but are quite happy to shout down, oppose and vilify anyone who opposes their agenda. Thus some of the main persecutors of Christians have been the homosexual activists, the PC brigade, and the radical feminists, along with their institutional supporters.
This harassment and persecution amounts to an undeclared war on Christianity. While we expect this sort of activity in atheistic nations and former communist regimes, it is remarkable to find it happening on such a large scale in America. Yet as the subtitle of this book explains, liberals are waging war against Christianity.
And as Limbaugh points out, this is even more ironic given the nation's founding. America was largely established on Judeo-Christian principles and beliefs, and its basic strengths and liberties spring forth from this soil. As a result, many of the freedoms and blessings enjoyed by Americans are being whittled away as the attack on Christianity extends throughout the nation.
The classroom is a classic case in point. The public school system has simply become a hotbed of secular humanism and anti-Christian bigotry. Limbaugh provides chilling examples of how our educational system is purging schools of any trace of faith.
Indeed, the examples are so numerous and so alarming that is hard to know where to begin. Consider just a few scenarios. In 1995 a US District judge in Texas said that any student saying the word "Jesus" would be arrested and spend 6 months in jail. A Vermont kindergarten student was expressly forbidden to say "God is not dead" to his classmates.
A teacher was rebuked for leaving religious literature in a New Jersey school faculty lounge, while literature trashing the `religious right' was plentiful and fully allowed. After the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, students painted tiles and placed them above their lockers to help in the grieving process. Around 90 of them were removed however because they contained inflammatory rhetoric such as "God is love."
Prayer of course has been banned, and textbooks even mentioning biblical characters are considered offensive and therefore must be removed. Choirs are banned from performing at school functions. And in the place of religion, we have a tidal wave of pro-homosexual activism, sex education, death education, values clarification and the like being foisted upon our hapless students. The examples are as numerous as they are mind-boggling.
Limbaugh rightly asks, what is happening to a nation that sees faith as an enemy and every sordid vice as a virtue?
Much of the suppression and hostility to the expression of Christianity comes from a faulty understanding of the so-called separation of church and state doctrine. Limbaugh examines this closely and shows that the founding fathers had no intention of eliminating religion from public life. The idea was merely to prevent one religion from becoming the state religion.
But the original intent of the founding fathers has been remarkably transmogrified by the secularists. Public education today simply bears no resemblance to how it first appeared. Indeed, Limbaugh reminds us that almost all of our earliest colleges were founded by Christians to train men and women in the ministry. Harvard, Princetown and Yale, for example, began as Christian training centers. Things have obviously changed markedly since then.
The courts, the media, the workplace, and the political realm also are full of anti-Christian bigotry. Limbaugh shows with countless examples that a once great nation based on Judeo-Christian principles is being shorn of any vestige of religion - much to our great peril.
Indeed, Limbaugh finishes his book with a review of the Christian heritage that helped to make America a free and prosperous nation. It was the Christian roots that gave rise to a great republic. But much of that is being undone by the secularisation process marching through the land.
Limbaugh reminds us that religious freedom is too important to give up without a fight, and that our Judeo-Christian heritage has served us well. The secularists may think their cause is progressive, but as this book shows, it is instead regressive, causing untold damage and destruction.
He makes it quite clear that Christians are regularly being vilified, abused, threatened, maligned and discriminated against, especially by the ruling elites. Thus our media, our schools, our courts, our governments and our entertainers seem to have declared open season on the followers of Jesus.
Ironically, most of the persecution is coming from those who shout the loudest about toleration and acceptance. The various radical activists and trendy lobby groups are keen on acceptance - when it comes to their causes - but are quite happy to shout down, oppose and vilify anyone who opposes their agenda. Thus some of the main persecutors of Christians have been the homosexual activists, the PC brigade, and the radical feminists, along with their institutional supporters.
This harassment and persecution amounts to an undeclared war on Christianity. While we expect this sort of activity in atheistic nations and former communist regimes, it is remarkable to find it happening on such a large scale in America. Yet as the subtitle of this book explains, liberals are waging war against Christianity.
And as Limbaugh points out, this is even more ironic given the nation's founding. America was largely established on Judeo-Christian principles and beliefs, and its basic strengths and liberties spring forth from this soil. As a result, many of the freedoms and blessings enjoyed by Americans are being whittled away as the attack on Christianity extends throughout the nation.
The classroom is a classic case in point. The public school system has simply become a hotbed of secular humanism and anti-Christian bigotry. Limbaugh provides chilling examples of how our educational system is purging schools of any trace of faith.
Indeed, the examples are so numerous and so alarming that is hard to know where to begin. Consider just a few scenarios. In 1995 a US District judge in Texas said that any student saying the word "Jesus" would be arrested and spend 6 months in jail. A Vermont kindergarten student was expressly forbidden to say "God is not dead" to his classmates.
A teacher was rebuked for leaving religious literature in a New Jersey school faculty lounge, while literature trashing the `religious right' was plentiful and fully allowed. After the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, students painted tiles and placed them above their lockers to help in the grieving process. Around 90 of them were removed however because they contained inflammatory rhetoric such as "God is love."
Prayer of course has been banned, and textbooks even mentioning biblical characters are considered offensive and therefore must be removed. Choirs are banned from performing at school functions. And in the place of religion, we have a tidal wave of pro-homosexual activism, sex education, death education, values clarification and the like being foisted upon our hapless students. The examples are as numerous as they are mind-boggling.
Limbaugh rightly asks, what is happening to a nation that sees faith as an enemy and every sordid vice as a virtue?
Much of the suppression and hostility to the expression of Christianity comes from a faulty understanding of the so-called separation of church and state doctrine. Limbaugh examines this closely and shows that the founding fathers had no intention of eliminating religion from public life. The idea was merely to prevent one religion from becoming the state religion.
But the original intent of the founding fathers has been remarkably transmogrified by the secularists. Public education today simply bears no resemblance to how it first appeared. Indeed, Limbaugh reminds us that almost all of our earliest colleges were founded by Christians to train men and women in the ministry. Harvard, Princetown and Yale, for example, began as Christian training centers. Things have obviously changed markedly since then.
The courts, the media, the workplace, and the political realm also are full of anti-Christian bigotry. Limbaugh shows with countless examples that a once great nation based on Judeo-Christian principles is being shorn of any vestige of religion - much to our great peril.
Indeed, Limbaugh finishes his book with a review of the Christian heritage that helped to make America a free and prosperous nation. It was the Christian roots that gave rise to a great republic. But much of that is being undone by the secularisation process marching through the land.
Limbaugh reminds us that religious freedom is too important to give up without a fight, and that our Judeo-Christian heritage has served us well. The secularists may think their cause is progressive, but as this book shows, it is instead regressive, causing untold damage and destruction.
reviewed by caramel on November 26, 2006 10:37 AM
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Yes, I am a Christian, and I believe in all of the teachings of christianity. But I do not support the conservative's constant attack of democratic liberals.... it's the simple example of stereo-typing. I can garantee there are millions of atheist conservative republicans... I used to have a friend who was. This book is trying to make democrats look bad by using the atheists of the left against them. That's similar to Southern Black discrimination... everyone tought they were lower and disgusting because they used to be slaves. But that wasn't what they were on the inside.
Also, I think there should be a seperation between church and state, because otherwise falsified religious fanatics (Like Ann coulter and David Limbaugh)would rule the country and launch a crusade on islamic countries. These authors have no christian morals whatsoever, and Bush, who supposedly is some kind of "oil messiah" also doesn't. I can garantee Jesus watched the U.S. bomb Iraq, and cried, considering that the middle east is his homeland...
Also... Interacial dating is probably the best thing that has ever happened in our society. Finally, nobody even cares what color of the rainbow you are. One of the worst things anyone can do (other than kill someone) is criticize them for something they can't change, (or don't want to for that matter) So Ann Coulter, and David Limbaugh... and any other hatred-filled so called christians... read the bible for once!!! Christians are not supposed to hate. They are supposed to love. So, like hippies in the 60's said make love, not war.
Also, I think there should be a seperation between church and state, because otherwise falsified religious fanatics (Like Ann coulter and David Limbaugh)would rule the country and launch a crusade on islamic countries. These authors have no christian morals whatsoever, and Bush, who supposedly is some kind of "oil messiah" also doesn't. I can garantee Jesus watched the U.S. bomb Iraq, and cried, considering that the middle east is his homeland...
Also... Interacial dating is probably the best thing that has ever happened in our society. Finally, nobody even cares what color of the rainbow you are. One of the worst things anyone can do (other than kill someone) is criticize them for something they can't change, (or don't want to for that matter) So Ann Coulter, and David Limbaugh... and any other hatred-filled so called christians... read the bible for once!!! Christians are not supposed to hate. They are supposed to love. So, like hippies in the 60's said make love, not war.
reviewed by jazzman on November 26, 2006 5:59 PM
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Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against Christianity by David Limbaugh is the book that liberals should be worried about. While Ann Coulter's Godless is getting all the press, it's this book that should have them shaking in their shoes. Limbaugh doesn't use hysterical vitriolic name-calling to get his point across, he uses facts and builds his case slowly, brick by brick. He's like a prosecutor bringing forth each piece of evidence and allowing the jury to see it and listen to each witness and allowing them to make their own judgment. Many of the cases do quote the same lawyers again and again, but that really can't be helped when there are only a few groups defending the rights of Christians to express their views. The book shows case after case in schools, workplaces, and the government in which Christianity is not just being suppressed but oppressed. The good news that in many of the actual court cases, the court upheld the rights of Christians. The bad news is that most people don't bring court cases, they just quietly fold up and give in. These court cases are the exception proving the rule, and the liberals are going to continue pushing and pushing because they know that most people will give in without a fight. Limbaugh also does a great job at the end of the book proving that America was founded on Christian principles by Christian men who never intended for Christianity to be hounded out of American life. This is a good book for everyone to read. It's one of the few books that just might change people's minds.
reviewed by vegaswinner on November 28, 2006 7:09 PM
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I love these types of research books. Very well put together, good research, good presentation. Its content got me angry but also armed for ignorance when met.
reviewed by waltersmith on November 29, 2006 4:41 AM
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Should America's Christians be heading for the catacombs? Maybe not just yet, but in Persecution David Limbaugh warns that "[a]nti-Christian discrimination in our society is getting more blatant and more widespread every day."
Nearly a quarter century ago, Francis Schaeffer wrote A Christian Manifesto to warn Christians about the fundamental world view shift taking place in western culture. According to Schaeffer, Christians tend to see "things as bits and pieces instead of totals." As a result, they failed to recognize trends such as "pornography, the breakdown of the family, and . . . abortion . . . as . . . a symptom of a much larger problem." Persecution is Limbaugh's attempt to insure that Christians don't make the same mistake with regard to their religious liberties.
Gleaning primarily from court records, Limbaugh cites a litany of cases that range from schools refusing Christian clubs access to campus facilities to a public library's firing of an employee for wearing a cross necklace to work. Taken individually, the cases may not seem that significant. Taken together, they demonstrate a kudzu-like hostility toward Christianity that's quietly overtaking American culture.
Though Limbaugh wrote Persecution on behalf of Christians, not all Christians are happy with the book. A December 2003 editorial in Christianity Today, for example, criticizes Limbaugh's publisher for the title and chastises Limbaugh for demeaning the suffering of Christians in other parts of the world by "implying" that the suffering of American Christians is somehow comparable.
Persecution is a provocative, attention-getting title - no doubt what Regnery and Limbaugh intended. But it's the subtitle, How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity, that gets to the heart of Limbaugh's thesis. The discrimination Limbaugh describes at such length is driven by a liberal elite that sees Christians - with their intolerance and their outdated notions of morality - as an irritating thorn in the side and an impediment to the brave new world the liberals hope to create. And at least some in that elite don't mind a little trampling of the First Amendment to achieve that end.
Persecution is intended primarily for Christians, to shake them into action by demonstrating how "ignoring [the framers'] original intent for the First Amendment . . . has already had alarming consequences for our precious freedoms." The alarm it sounds, however, is one all Americans should heed because the freedoms denied to one group today become the freedoms denied to another group tomorrow.
Nearly a quarter century ago, Francis Schaeffer wrote A Christian Manifesto to warn Christians about the fundamental world view shift taking place in western culture. According to Schaeffer, Christians tend to see "things as bits and pieces instead of totals." As a result, they failed to recognize trends such as "pornography, the breakdown of the family, and . . . abortion . . . as . . . a symptom of a much larger problem." Persecution is Limbaugh's attempt to insure that Christians don't make the same mistake with regard to their religious liberties.
Gleaning primarily from court records, Limbaugh cites a litany of cases that range from schools refusing Christian clubs access to campus facilities to a public library's firing of an employee for wearing a cross necklace to work. Taken individually, the cases may not seem that significant. Taken together, they demonstrate a kudzu-like hostility toward Christianity that's quietly overtaking American culture.
Though Limbaugh wrote Persecution on behalf of Christians, not all Christians are happy with the book. A December 2003 editorial in Christianity Today, for example, criticizes Limbaugh's publisher for the title and chastises Limbaugh for demeaning the suffering of Christians in other parts of the world by "implying" that the suffering of American Christians is somehow comparable.
Persecution is a provocative, attention-getting title - no doubt what Regnery and Limbaugh intended. But it's the subtitle, How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity, that gets to the heart of Limbaugh's thesis. The discrimination Limbaugh describes at such length is driven by a liberal elite that sees Christians - with their intolerance and their outdated notions of morality - as an irritating thorn in the side and an impediment to the brave new world the liberals hope to create. And at least some in that elite don't mind a little trampling of the First Amendment to achieve that end.
Persecution is intended primarily for Christians, to shake them into action by demonstrating how "ignoring [the framers'] original intent for the First Amendment . . . has already had alarming consequences for our precious freedoms." The alarm it sounds, however, is one all Americans should heed because the freedoms denied to one group today become the freedoms denied to another group tomorrow.
reviewed by mags on November 29, 2006 3:27 PM