Isn’t the reference to Islamization of the US somewhat allegorical, then?

After all, if, as you say, Islam “is preeminently the faith of the slow-witted and literal-minded,” the same is surely true of the dominant strain of contemporary Christianity: as you put it, “political preachers of the “Religious Right” … are, after all, theologically ignorant, poltroonish opportunists, and lickspittles of power.”

Indeed.

I’ve noticed in talking with Christian family and friends that very few are grappling with the intellectual intricacies of the Incarnation, Vicarious Atonement, etc. at even the level of, say, Lewis’ “Mere Christianity.” Only a few (mainly Catholics) seem to have any recollection of Christian just-war theory..

Isn’t the historically interesting, underlying issue the fact that the dominant intellectual elites in Western civilization for nearly three centuries have been non-Christians? From Newton, Voltaire, and Beethoven to Hawking, Rawls, and Barth, it is difficult to detect any strain of orthodox, Trinitarian Christianity. Surely, the intellectual vulgarization of popular Christianity has something to do with this strange, longstanding opposition between the beliefs of the elites and the beliefs of the masses.

Incidentally, I am, I suppose, a member of those elites myself: I have a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Stanford, and, like most elite scientists, I don’t think God exists. (I do think I can claim that, unlike the dominant intellectuals of the last two centuries, I have not merely substituted some secular religion – Marxism, psychoanalysis, environmentalism, etc. – for Christianity.)

So, isn’t the death of serious Christianity as an influence on our civilization already complete, not something that will happen in the future? Isn’t Western civilization giving way to a new post-Western, post-Christian world civilization?

Frankly, I think that is a good thing. At least, our corrupt and decadent Western elites will find themselves destined for insignificance once Asia reasserts its traditional world dominance.

I’m homeschooling my kids, and they’re learning Chinese.

Dave Miller in Sacramento

Truth has no mysteries, as all real followers of Christ know. Y'all sound like a bunch of freemasons.

It is often demanded of Islam that it Reform itself, but what has Christianity gained in it's perpetual acquiesence to the dictates of the times? Tolerance, ad nauseum, but tolerance for WHAT? A multiplicity of beliefs, a more lax code of sexual conduct? NO, the wholesale acceptance of USURY not only by the Protestant churches but also Catholicism has led to our current predicament.

According to the Islamic position, which is not debateable, suicide (whether for personal, tactical, or political reasons) is forbidden. It is an abject lie to paint any such activities as somehow Islamic. REVOLUTION and TERROR are Western, post-enlightenment phenomena. It comes as no surprise that suicide bombing ONLY comes on the scene AFTER the wholesale rejection of Islam by Arab socialists (erm modernists) in this century. Ataturk an admirable man my ass!

Need i remind the otherwise intelligent readers of this site that the Ba'ath party was founded by Michel Aflak, a Lebonese CHRISTIAN, SOCIALIST? Ask ANY Muslim you meet on the street if they consider ANY act of so-called "Jihad" by wahhabis and their ilk legitimate and you will be met with a resounding laugh. It is exactly like expecting Christians to accept Dylan Klebold or the Omaha mall shooter as holy warriors in the name of Christ.

True Christians and Muslims ought to recognize their affinities and common enemies.

Usury is god and satan is his prophet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventions_in_the_Muslim_world

For example, did you know that the most recent estimates of the number of deaths from several centuries of the Inquisition is 4000? By contrast, in the last 6 years alone, since after 9/11/01, there have been around the globe over 10,000 jihad attacks with many tens of thousands of civilian deaths resulting. In Thailand alone since 2004, there have been over 2000 civilian deaths resulting from Jihad attacks in the name of Islam. In October of 2007 alone, there were jihad attacks in 19 nations with over 1200 deaths and over 2000 critical injuries. Between 30 percent and 40 percent of the victims of jihad attacks worldwide have been in Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars started in those nations. The overwhelming majority of victims have been civilians. Every single day deadly jihad attacks in the name of Islam are reported through some news outlet somewhere on the globe. Glen Reinsford over at thereligionofpeace.com has archived all of the attacks reported in the press for the last six years. It's a superb site for getting a synoptic overview of Islam and if you scroll down once there you will find sections giving excellent responses to any trite Islamic apologetics you might run into.

Were culture ephemeral this would be insignificant. However you are quite right that Jesus' explicit call for a separation of God and Cesaer and the Protestant emphasis on literacy and self-scrutiny were key to our success. Countries without this background have not led to first world democracies. Muhammed was a political and religious leader. Their region has never sprouted egalitarianism and fredom of conscience.

Yes Bush confuses America and the world continuously. He thinks he is the president of everywhere and as such does not care for our sovereignty.

Culturism holds that culture is not metaphysical. It exists in people who need land to survive. Everytime we import a muslim, every muslim household is a space which we have given up. Land is a reliable measure of sustainablity. No land, no cultural continuance. Our culture does not inhabit much of the West coast or Michigan or New Jersey.

Dr. Wilson is so correct. When we fail to distinguish our cultural heritage and its singularity we are confused, ripe for empire and supplanting.

http://www.culturism.us

"Yet, even as various political leaders and public figures told us to shut up, sit down, and prepare for our forthcoming servitude calmly, neither the government nor the experts for the most part emitted the least discomfort with official immigration policies or the vast hordes of immigrants, many from Arabic lands, that fluttered across the nation. As I noted in a previous column, as far as the American Ruling Class is concerned, the Constitution is expendable, but immigration and the multicultural and multiracial checkerboard it creates remain sacrosanct, unquestionable, and untouchable." Samuel Francis

Only a corrupt reason turns against Christianity.

Men like Bush are corrupt, which is why they need Christ. The man whose reason turns against Christ is the man who needs him most, but only by grace will the corrupt man have him.

The more corrupt a man is, the less aware he is of his corruptness.

The corrupt man is self-absorbed, which blinds him both to the reality around him and to an objective wit of himself.

The corrupt man lives in a bubble where he thinks his own reason is supreme.