"Secular Taliban" letter

[CatholicEdHead]

I saw this letter in the St. Cloud Times and only could shake my head. He is overly concerened about a "Secular Taliban" in the US. Talk about over the top.

http://miva.sctimes.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?Web/page.mv+1+opinion+657389

" Letter: Secular Taliban in U.S. a serious threat
Leo Pusateri, St. Cloud

Is there a "secular Taliban" operating in the United States?

Just as in 2001 the Taliban in Afghanistan ordered all statues destroyed as a means of erasing history and heritage inconsistent with Islam, it appears that there is a critical mass of people, including the likes of Michael Newdow, the ACLU and others, who seek to erase any vestige of our Christian heritage from the American landscape.

The Taliban's actions destroyed a deep, rich heritage, including centuries-old 152-foot Buddhist statues. Their goal was to wipe out a heritage as if it never existed.

The secular Taliban's goals are much the same. They wish to wipe out any vestige of Christian heritage in this country, whether it be a Ten Commandments display, manger scene or crosses from war memorials. Like the Taliban, they wish to wipe away all religious heritage not in line with their ideals of secular humanism.

Like the Nazis burned books, the secular Taliban wish to erase history by, in effect, wiping out literally centuries of decidedly conspicuous co-existence (not separation) between Judeo-Christian tradition and government.

George Washington once prayed, " ... that (God) would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, to demean ourselves with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the divine author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation."

It would appear that the secular Taliban has and is implementing a different idea of what America is or should be.

Our children and grandchildren will be denied their heritage as a result."

[da_chimperor]

1. Yawn. The whole persecuted Christian thing is so last year

I was hoping it would die off after x-mas, but it looks like there are still some hangers on.

[Warpy]

2. Their Christian heritage dates from 1954

which is when they bullied the country into shoving their god into the pledge written by a socialist 50 years earlier and which was a pledge to the ideals of liberty here on earth and had nothing to do with their dreams of heaven.

Newdow is trying to reclaim our heritage of the original intent of that pledge, to rescue our heritage from the bullies on the right who claim to be Christian but never act that way.