Pat Buchanan Grooves Out on that Theocracy Vibe

The media think(s) Santorum is singing “Onward Christian Soldiers” while heading off into the fever swamps. But Santorum is wagering his political future on his assessment of where we are in 2012.

He sees America dividing ever more deeply between those who hold to traditional Christian views on marriage, life and morality, and those who have abandoned such beliefs. He believes that the former remain America’s silent majority, and he is offering himself as their champion against a militant secularism that has lately angered more than just the right

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Santorum seems to want to steer his primary and general election campaign into a conflict that goes back deep into American history and has surfaced time and again.

An early triumph of secularism came with the Scopes trial in 1923 in Dayton, Tenn. Clarence Darrow, defending a teacher who had violated state law by introducing Darwin’s theory of evolution into the classroom, mocked the Old Testament teachings of the Evangelical Christians, to the merriment of the establishment.

From that day on, Darwinism was taught in our schools, first as theory, then as fact, then as higher truth. With the Darwinian tenet — we evolved, we were not created — established truth in the public schools, secularism set about driving its enemy, Christianity, out completely.

Under the Warren Court in the 1950s and 1960s, it succeeded.

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Militant Secularism? Awesome. I love militant secularism. Of course another term for militant secularism that is more commonly used today would be science. Science is really cool.

It is kinda ironic when you think about. Creationism as a Political Ideology did not exist prior to the Scopes Trial. It was a reaction to modernity - the conversion of the nation from a nation of buggy whips to an industrial society.

Creationism was not the cause of the Scopes Trial but rather the effect. Darwin published his tracks 60 years prior to the scopes trial and religion and science operated just fine side by side. Throw in the pushback from the rapid changes required from WWI war economy, along with a fear of immigrants and African Americans acting like Americans and boom. It is a tea party - scopes style. And today we have the tea party and movement conservatism.

The problem for team theocracy is that they can't turn back the clock and restore America as a nation of buggy whips. It ain't gonna happen. Modernity marches on.