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America has no established religion, which is undeniably true and a peculiar stroke of genius of the Founding Fathers in preventing the hegemony of one religious system over the others. Yet even without an established religion, the United States has always stood for certain values, notably for its own republican form of government. And today, we have an entirely different kind of established religion, which, while unofficial, is most definitely established.
President Woodrow Wilson was among the first to see this as practically a religious crusade of its own. In April 1917, as he called for a declaration of war against Germany that got the U.S. into World War I, Wilson sounded much like a Christian missionary without the Christianity: “The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”
A century after the Wilson administration, the U.S. is exporting not democracy, but the Left’s ideology. Our established religion in the United States as we approach the second quarter of the twenty-first century is Leftism’s contemporary sexual obsession and confusion, contempt for masculinity, erasure of femininity, obsession with racism real and imagined (mostly the latter), and all the rest. Today LGBT pride flags are proudly (of course) displayed at U.S. embassies around the world, there are openly “gender fluid” and transgender government officials, and officials at the highest levels, including the president of the United States himself, heap fulsome praise upon Leftist societal and sexual fads.
It has become clear during the feckless and sinister epiphenomenon of Joe Biden’s presidency, if it had not been clear already, that establishment of a state religion, like religion itself, is inescapable, whether that established religion is de facto or official recognized. Just as individuals who insist that they are atheists have some central focus and guiding force and principle in their lives, that is, something that takes the place and serves the purpose of a religion, so governments will endorse and even impose certain values.
One notorious example of this came on May 5, 2022, when the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) announced that it was planning to “interpret the prohibition on discrimination based on sex found in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and in the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the Food Stamp Program (7 USC § 2011 et seq.), to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”
This new interpretation would mean that “state and local agencies, program operators and sponsors that receive funds from FNS must investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation. Those organizations must also update their non-discrimination policies and signage to include prohibitions against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.”
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MJ Raichyk, PhD says
Thank the corporate parity feminists who concealed the childhood damage of daycare over motherhood at home….
The Israelis saw it in the 80s and 90s and reversed course by elevating motherhood when they saw that the first generation of kibbutz-daycare kids grew up to have less success in intimacy and forming their own families as well as troubles in relating to their parents… compared to their same generation from the same area but raised by mothers at home….
The blasted American feminists tried to claim the patterns of peer aggressiveness, or passiveness to authority etc were evidence of advanced ”maturity”
ttyl
gravenimage says
The implication that mothers are not allowed to work in Israel is mistaken.
stevem says
America was a Christian Nation despite establishment clause which was put there to protect Churches from the govt because so many churches co-opted by emporers and kings in old – not the other way around which is common belief. Everyone I knew went to Church in the 60s.
The late 60s cultural revolution and post-modernism changed that.Some remnance remains but it’s caffetteria variety Chirstains which don’t have the building of civiliaztions precepts at heart so population is well below replacement values. >2.1 fertility rates.
Islam and Judaism still does. Israel has 3.1 fertility rates. Islam much higher. In Europe it’s 3.4 amongst Muslims and over 4 in many ME and North African countries. As high as 6 in black african countries.
Women are still building civilizations there. Women lib destroyed it’s civilizations in the West.
gravenimage says
Your idea that women in Islam are building civilization is mistaken.
Emilie Green says
Here’s a burden never to be overcome: Getting some court to find that we have in fact an established religion.
SteveM says
The great imponderable is how these childless Americans and Europeans will be taken care of in old age? Few have 5 million parked in a 401k. Let alone fight battles for them being old a decrepit. They decided to take in imports which I doubt will. Interesting times ahead.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Merry Christmas, Everybody! ?
gravenimage says
Belatedly, same to you, Infidel!
deze MN bee says
It (They) can certainly be regarded as an Organised Religion but only if they attain tax-exemption status.
That would fun to see them go for that but after all the Trans madness and a silly Pope waving a rainbow flag no one would be surprised.