Must Be Holy Week

Thus the nonstop, wall-to-wall efforts to unseat Christ from his throne:

The 20th century was the bloodiest, most savage epoch in recorded human history, yet little of the carnage was a direct result of religious pursuits; quite the opposite. Most of the regimes responsible for the deaths of untold millions were those that discarded Christianity in favor of the State. The extent of suffering in the service of Communism, Socialism and Nazism was unprecedented; as was that of those who opposed them.

Our constitutional republic, with its safeguarding of religious liberty and God-given rights, is one of the only forms of government that can stand in the doorway of such ferocity. As we presently see, there are certain religions whose tenets are totally incompatible with protecting those rights for all. Our Christian heritage -- tempered by the experiences of our European forefathers -- paradoxically guarantees the rights of others to disparage its Founder with impunity.

But this does not mean we must accede to their irrational fears and hatred for those whose charity toward them springs from the heart of Jesus Christ. As history has painfully demonstrated, less Christianity leads to more violence and hate, while true adherence to the Gospel can only bring the peace and love of which liberals so fondly speak.

There are those in this country who agree with the Islamist view that America is indeed the Great Satan. But as Jesus said, Satan cannot cast out Satan; a house divided against itself cannot stand. The only way we can lose our God-given freedoms is if we agree with those who wish us to ignore the tenets of the Prince of Peace by putting Him into a closet whose door only opens on Sundays. Or at Easter.

Well, atheists don't like to own up to the concentration camps, ovens, and executions godless regimes have inflicted upon their own and subject peoples. Surely, the NEXT atheist utopia will be different.