Bill Press is an idiot

Now, we are not religious, but we can recognize atheistic bias when we here it. Judge Roy Moore was on After Words with Bill Press. Moore explained his position that the U.S. is a Christian nation. He explained how this does not in anyway mean that it is so by "establishment." Press simply would not here it and kept on complaining that to say that was in contradiction of the establishment clause.

This, of course, is dumb. Press has an anti-religion bias that prevents him from hearing anything which to him suggests that America was and is a Christian nation. Moore was very reasonable and appealed to the actual words of our various founding documents and early Supreme Court texts which all prove to any reasonable person that the Christian faith was taken as granted among all citizens and even in our documents like the Declaration. The genius of the founders was that despite this, they prohibited the governments from actually establishing any particular sect or religion by law. Somehow, Press takes this to mean that the founders were describing a nation without any religious character, a nation whose laws and institutions must not contain anything remotely religious.

What infuriates me about this is the bigotry. We just saw it in the Schiavo case where people who themselves do not want to live like that were biased against any arguments from the other side. Here we are again. Press does like religion and thus he can not allow any argument which favors it to have merit.

America is a free country and that means we are free to exercise our religion. The only limitation to that exercise is that such may not hinder another's religious exercise. That is the point of prohibiting the Federal government from establishing one religion in law. (Of course, states should be free to do just that, but let's not go there.) There is nothing in our Constitution which says you are protected from hearing or being near another citizen while he or she is engaged in religious exercise. Indeed, as we often say, the cure to odious speech is laudable speech, not a restriction of speech. The same must apply to religious exercise.

It is stupid and dangerous to think that federal institutions must be cleansed of religion. They must allow for free religious expression; that is the point of the establishment clause. Just because Bill Press is offended by silent school prayers does not mean that the school has established Christianity as the official state religion. It is absurd to think that a Jewish or Muslim student's right to free exercise of religion is in any real way diminished by this. Also, school prayer is not the law and no school has ever attempted to enforce any sort of conformity of school prayer. As usual, the religious right is far more tolerant than the Left.

Atheism, Leftism and Liberalism are, in fact, religious in nature. It's not that they have moral value like many religions, but that they appeal to man's religious nature. (Need proof? Just talk to them. Why do you think they all act like they are in a cult? It's because they are.) Anyway, I think that it is man's natural religious tendency which is to blame for Liberalism surviving despite it very obvious corruption. (This is not to say why Liberals themselves adopt Liberalism. On that issue I still like my earlier explanation: immaturity.) Naturally, Press and other Left cultists are perfectly happy to enforce their own religious views on others.

Just to be clear, this is not the first time I've examined Bill Press. He debated somebody on C-Span just before the election making arguments from his book. I took notes and began to analyze them. I gave up because it was not even worth my time. It was another example of the above. He refused to accept the validity of arguments which proved him wrong.

Liberals do this sort of thing all the time for the same reason that they hypocritically impose restriction on others they would never accept on themselves. They believe that they have special insight, gained by their "education" (read indoctrination), as to the future. They believe in a political heaven. Yes, it is the old utopia which the rest of us have left behind along with our blanky and teddy bears. They may not call themselves Marxists or Communists any more, though some still do, but they are the same. They have seen the light and they will bring you with them whether you like it or not. In fact, they have to bring you, because they need your labor to make their paradise work. All is in the service of Progress. History and human nature be damned -- full speed ahead!