Manifestos

The Long War at home is heating up.  The can’t-leave-well-enough-alone secularists, as championed by Richard Dawkins, continue to snipe at the faithful.  But some of the faithful are having none of it; the Reverend Donald Sensing lays it out in no uncertain terms:

Dawkins, Wilson et. al. are what I call evangelistic atheists, not

content with enjoying their own religion as they see fit but

dogmatically trying to convert others to their belief.

Well,

fine. There is no stronger defender of the free marketplace of ideas

than I. But I hope they understand that they have no right to do so.

Let

me say that again so you know I am intentional: If atheists are to take

their own beliefs to their logical end, they mist agree that they have

no right to promulgate their belief. They have no right to challenge me

about my religion. They have no right to speak up in my community, no

right to live in my community, indeed, no right even to life itself.

They have no rights at all, in fact.

I suspect much of the divide over the Long War–of which the Iraqi War is the latest episode–comes down to secular vs. religious worldviews.  I also suspect that deep down inside, the secularists fear that the War Between Civilizations will eventually make them irrelevant or redundant, or extinct.

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