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 From: bordermine@yahoo.com 
  
 there is a statue of an Aztecan war god in San Jose, CA. It is on public 
 land, 
 paid for with taxpayer money. It's a concession to the "La Raza" race 
 radicals 
 who are determined to make every decision by government or business a racial 
 issue. They claim it's a "cultural, not religious" symbol. Like the Menorah 
 that 
 shows up in Union Square, S.F. every year, while the ACLU fanatics claw 
 through 
 the courts to knock down the Mount Davidson cross; one can only wonder how 
 long 
 until they demand that the crosses be chiseled off the headstones of the 
 Christians buried in the national cemeteries? (there are some stars of David 
 there too). 
  
 Ramone Garcia wrote: 
  
 > The Hate-Religion Party... except Radical Islam 
 > 
 > A new study proves: The secular Democrats despise people of faith. 
 > 
 > The Hate-Religion Party 
 > By Lowell Ponte 
 > October 27, 2003 
 > 
 > THE MOST IMPORTANT RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY celebrated in our public schools 
 > happens this Friday.  It is neither Christmas nor Passover, both 
 effectively 
 > banished from government institutions in the name of the "Separation of 
 > Church and State." 
 > 
 > But this one religious holiday of Europe's pagan witchcraft religions, 
 > Halloween, is honored with extensive ritual artwork, free sweets and 
 > widespread approval in our socialist schools.  This religious holiday seems 
 > mysteriously exempt from criticism or attack by the American Civil 
 Liberties 
 > Union. 
 > 
 > America, according to the ACLU, is a "secular country" in which the 
 > government equally protects the rights of all religions but does not use 
 its 
 > power or expenditures to promote any one of them. This, of course, is not 
 > what is happening. 
 > 
 > The Culture War is also a religious war, and leftists are using government 
 > to promote and advance their own cults - from the pseudo-science called 
 > Marxism to a host of pagan and anti-Judeo-Christian movements - to alter 
 > America's culture. 
 > 
 > The two dominant political parties, Republican and Democrat, each attract a 
 > wide variety of supporters. But they too, researchers have found, tend to 
 > divide not only ideologically but also along religious lines. This has gone 
 > far beyond past tendencies for Roman Catholics and Jews to vote Democratic, 
 > two old patterns now reversing as members of both groups vote increasingly 
 > Republican with each election. 
 > 
 > Among rank and file voters, a Harris Poll reported last February 26, nine 
 > percent fewer Democrats than Republicans believe in heaven, 17 percent 
 fewer 
 > in the existence of the devil and 19 percent fewer in Hell. 
 > 
 > But when it came to New Age beliefs apart from the Jewish and Christian 
 > faiths, 12 percent more Democrats believe in ghosts, 13 percent more in 
 > reincarnation and 21 percent more in astrology. 
 > 
 > Self-identified independents in this poll tended to share the less 
 > Judeo-Christian, more pagan beliefs of Democrats except about astrology, on 
 > which independents' views were midway between superstitious Democrats and 
 > more skeptical Republicans. 
 > 
 > The Harris Poll also sifted this data into three racial-ethnic categories 
 > and reported that blacks held the strongest belief in Hell and the devil, 
 > while Hispanics had the strongest belief in ghosts and reincarnation. 
 > 
 > But among the ruling elite that controls the Democratic Party, the 
 rejection 
 > of God and indeed all religious belief is dramatic.  At the 1992 Democratic 
 > National Convention that nominated Bill Clinton its candidate for 
 President, 
 > "60 percent of first-time white delegates€either claimed no attachment to 
 > religion or displayed the minimal attachment by attending worship services 
 > €a few times a year' or less."  Thus write Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio, 
 > Political Science professors at Baruch College, City University of New 
 York. 
 > 
 > These secular values are reflected in leftist Democratic positions on a 
 host 
 > of issues, they observe, from abortion to education to sexual mores. And 
 > they are reflected in both fear of and active hostility towards evangelical 
 > Christians, one of whom is President George W. Bush. 
 > 
 > "If the GOP can be labeled the party of religious conservatives," wrote 
 > Professors Bolce and De Maio in the journal The Public Interest, "the 
 > Democrats, with equal validity, can be called the secularist party." 
 > 
 > But when these scholars compared coverage of such issues in the New York 
 > Times and Washington Post, they were struck by the almost complete absence, 
 > the "paucity of news stories and commentaries that identify secularists or 
 > the secularist outlook with the Democratic party, particularly when 
 > contrasted to the large number of stories and editorials in both papers 
 > about the Republican party's relationship with evangelical and 
 > fundamentalist Christians (43 and 682 stories respectively)." 
 > 
 > In this area as in others, those controlling the news media share the 
 ruling 
 > Democratic mindset. Robert Lichter and his associates in their study The 
 > Media Elite identified one of the prime characteristics of this elite as 
 > "its secular outlook." 
 > 
 > This can be evident even when not declared, note Bolce and De Maio. "People 
 > for the American Way, for example," they write, "is most often 
 characterized 
 > in press accounts as a civil liberties and civil rights group, rarely as a 
 > secularist organization.  But a visit to the organization's website shows 
 > that its culture agenda is the mirror opposite of the Christian Coalition' 
 > s." 
 > 
 > In his fine book Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against 
 > Christianity, David Limbaugh lays out a lawyerly case showing that the Left 
 > is systematically trying to purge Christianity and religious Judaism from 
 > public schools and everyplace else in the public square. 
 > 
 > The leftist aim is not to leave those schools and young minds devoid of 
 > faith. It is to erase all beliefs that contradict the secular humanist 
 > values of the Left, a rival religion. Humanism, as the ultimate standard of 
 > our language defines it, can be called "the religion of man," a faith in 
 > which "man is the measure of all things," in which humankind becomes God. 
 > 
 > More than a century ago, when the new white-robed priesthood of science 
 > began challenging the literal statements of the Bible, those who lost their 
 > old faiths were easily seduced by new ones.  Foremost of these 
 > pseudo-scientific cults was Marxism, which claimed to be scientific in its 
 > methods, to have deep understanding of invisible forces controlling 
 history, 
 > and to be able to usher in a heaven on earth and the emergence of the 
 > "crystal man" evolved beyond greed, war and individuality. 
 > 
 > The religious wars, tortures and concentration camps unleashed by socialism 
  
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