All Saints Day in the Church of Liberalism

Today, Christians across America celebrate All Saints Day.  Sadly, polling over time indicates fewer and fewer Americans see the value in traditional religion.  More than 50 years of polling shows that the percentage of Americans who practice Christianity continues to fall while the percentage of Americans who identify as atheists and agnostics continues to rise.  In the early 1960s, before the ascent of the Cultural Revolution, more than 90 percent of Americans identified as Christians while just 2 percent identified as non-religious.  Today, only about 3 in 4 Americans identify as Christians while the number of percentage of Americans who do not adhere to any religion has jumped to around 20 percent.  Over the years, the percentage of Americans who practice Judaism has remained steady in the low single digits.  If not for the South and Utah, America’s religious participation would mirror that of secular Europe. 

 

The de-Christianization of America has come as good news to liberals, who hope to promote their religion as an alternative to Christianity.  Several different names exist for this new religion.  Ann Coulter refers to it as “The Church of Liberalism.”  Pat Buchanan prefers to call it “secular humanism.”  Bill O’Reilly refers to leftist dogma as “secular progressivism.”  Throughout this article, I will refer to the liberal religion as the “Church of Liberalism.”    

 

Many people subscribe to the Church of Liberalism as a result of “affluenza.” The dogmas of liberalism first developed in the 1960s, in the midst of a post-war economic boom.  The practitioners of Liberalism then went on a “long march through the institutions” where they took control of Academia, Hollywood and the media; all of which play a key role in shaping how ordinary Americans view the world.  Each of these institutions seeks to pass on the values of Liberalism to the next generation while presenting themselves as objective truth tellers. 

 

Like Christianity, Liberalism has saints; people it reveres for their contributions to the religion and society as a whole.  Throughout the rest of this article, saints in the Church of Liberalism will be identified in bold.  Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood and popularized the idea of birth control.  The feminists on the left who worship Sanger could care less that she had endorsed eugenics and advocated for halting procreation among “irresponsible and reckless people.”  Her contributions to patriarchy-smashing overshadow any unfavorable views she may have held about people of other races.          

 

If Christians look to The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes as guidelines on how best to go about their lives then liberals look to Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and “Steps to a Social State” as guidelines for their policymaking.  Unfortunately, many liberals do a better job adhering to the “Rules for Radicals” than many Christians do adhering to the Ten Commandments.   

 

The Church of Liberalism would probably choose to canonize a few liberal Presidents the same way the Catholic Church has canonized several of its most influential popes.  Barack Obama would surely have a spot reserved for him in the Church of Liberalism hall of fame.  His biggest contributions to the Church of Liberalism include creating Obamacare, a soft form of nationalized health insurance, and doubling the national debt; a key tactic out of the Alinsky playbook.  In addition, Obamacare had several carve-outs for liberal interest groups including requiring that all employers provide their employees with no-cost birth control.  At first glance, Franklin Delano Roosevelt might seem like an ideal candidate for canonization in the Church of Liberalism; as his administration laid the groundwork for the massive expansion of the Federal government’s role in managing the economy.  But he might not survive today’s liberal purity standards.  After all, he engineered the Japanese Internment camps and staunchly opposed homosexuality.    

 

Michael Moore has made several documentary films advocating for the implementation of left-wing policies, including “Sicko”, which advocated for socialized health insurance, “Bowling for Colubmine”, which advocated for gun control, and “Fahrenheit 9/11” which promoted conspiracy theories regarding the 9/11 terror attacks.  While he correctly predicted the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, Moore has become one of the most vocal proponents of #TheResistance.  He recently tried his hand at a Broadway show, which did not achieve the same level of success as his documentary films.  President Trump took to Twitter to mock the show’s poor reviews, saying “I must point out that the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close.  SAD!”  Moore had planned on making a film with sexual predator Harvey Weinstein called “Fahrenheit 11/9”, which will focus on the Trump Presidency.  The film will probably go on as scheduled but Weinstein may no longer have a role in the production due to the fallout from his sexual assault allegations. Moore’s films, activism, and loathing of white Americans surely qualify him for sainthood in the Church of Liberalism.   

 

Former Vice President Al Gore has spent his Post Vice Presidency campaigning on behalf of the environment; advising Americans to reduce their carbon footprints while he lives in a mansion that consumes more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years.  He incorrectly predicted in his flagship documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” that most of New York City would be underwater by the year 2015.  While New York City did have to endure the wrath of Superstorm Sandy, most New Yorkers in 2017 can still move about without the use of a boat.  For an ideology supposedly based on science, climate change hysterics treat their ideology more like a religion than science.  Ann Coulter points this out in her book Godless: The Church of Liberalism.

 

In his book The Death of the West, Pat Buchanan refers to Georg Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse as “Four Who Made a Revolution.”  These four sought to succeed where Karl Marx, another likely canonization candidate in the Church of Liberalism, failed.  They saw diminishing the role of Christianity as an important prerequisite to creating the paradise Marx envisioned.  They realized that “unless and until Chrstianity and Western culture, the immune system of capitalism, were uprooted from the soul of Western Man, Marxism could not take root, and the revolution would be betrayed by the workers in whose name it was to be fought.”  (Buchanan, 75). Years after the deaths of the “Four Who Made a Revolution”, “the revolution” has done a pretty good job of uprooting Christianity from the soul of Western men.  

 

Today’s liberals owe a debt of gratitude to Ted Kennedy, who championed the 1965 Immigration Bill that dramatically altered our immigration system to the electoral advantage of the Democratic Party.  Ann Coulter pointed out the intended consequences of the bill, “the country would become poorer and less free, but Democrats would have an unbeatable majority.”  This unbeatable majority would allow them to enact the most sacred provisions of the Church of Liberalism into law with limited opposition.     

 

Many other saints exist in the Church of Liberalism; far too many to list in one article.  All saints of the Church of Liberalism have generally fought to expand the power of the state, reduce the power of Christianity, and/or promote the dogmas of feminism, multiculturalism, and environmentalism.  To all those who still practice Christianity, take some time on this All Saints Day to appreciate all of the saints whose life stories serve as inspirations to those of us who hope to someday join them in heaven. We know that the short-term satisfaction on Earth promised by the Church of Liberalism can never compare to the afterlife promised to Christians.