Bill O'Reilly's Call for Holy War Just Articulates What the Right Has Been Doing All Along
We could get worked up about Bill O’Reilly’s talk of a holy war. Or not. The Religious Right has been fighting a holy war against all of us for decades now. Muslims are a relatively recent addition to their list of enemies.
Think about it: the “culture war” is just a euphemism for holy war. This push for so-called “religious freedom” is actually a holy war on women, where one group tries to force its religious doctrines on everyone else.
When O’Reilly said on Tuesday, “The holy war is here,” he was right though. The Religious Right’s holy war has been with us and building since 1964 when they laid the groundwork for taking over the Republican Party.
On Wednesday, Bill O’Reilly doubled down on his holy war shtick and proved his clown car bona fides by proclaiming, “The civilized world needs to come together to eliminate the threat from the Earth. And if the politicians won’t do it, the clergy must lead the way.”
Nothing new here. Again, the clergy have been leading the way for decades in the culture war and now in calls for “religious freedom.” They’ll just be turning their attention from our women and children and the poor to going after specifically Muslim women, children, and poor.
He even clenched his fists to show he was serious. Leave it to Bill O’Reilly to respond to something sane from President Obama with something insane. Everything Fox News encapsulated in a single moment:
The holy war begins…. The holy war is here. And unfortunately it seems the President of United States will be the last one to acknowledge it…. President Obama needs to lead – needs to lead the world in this holy war.
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