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Title: Godless Party
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URL Source: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/godless-party/
Published: Sep 8, 2012
Author: PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
Post Date: 2012-09-08 09:22:02 by Ada
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The jeering crowd was right: God doesn't belong in the Democrats' platform. The authors of the Democratic platform have inadvertently revealed to the world the sea change that has taken place in that party we once knew. For the first time–and in the longest Democratic platform in history, 26,000 words–there was not a single mention of God, the Creator, whom Thomas Jefferson himself, father of the party, proclaimed to be the author of our right to life and liberty. The convention had approved the new platform, but when a firestorm erupted, a panicked Barack Obama hastily ordered “God” reinstated. But when the amendment was offered to the convention by its chairman, Antonio Villaraigosa, the idea of restoring the name of God to the platform was hooted, jeered and booed by half the delegates on the floor, who three times howled, “No!” The omission of God is being called an oversight. But the viral reaction to returning God, even when Obama asked that it be done, testifies that this was no accident. God was deleted deliberately. This process has been under way for a decade. In the 2004 platform, there were seven references to God. In 2008, one. Like the European Union, whose Christian heritage is being excised from official documents by its secularist elite, the country led by the Democratic Party of Obama is being de-Christianized. Still, why would Democrats do something so seemingly stupid, something that will inevitably cause a backlash among believers? Answer: Millions of Democrats are themselves offended when God is included, because for them, the God of the Old and New Testaments is an impediment to the progressive march of mankind. A year ago, in writing Suicide of a Superpower, I discovered that the number of self-identified Christians had fallen from 85 percent of the U.S. population in 1990 to 75 percent last year and that 1 in 6 Americans now disbelieve in God. Of Americans younger than 30, 1 in 4 profess no faith. Among Democrats, the figures are surely higher. Which brings us to the quandary faced by the platform writers. Why include in a statement of party beliefs a reference to God when a huge slice of that party would be deeply offended because such a reference would be the party’s formal declaration that their atheist or agnostic beliefs are wrong. Some atheists place a belief in God or Christ as the Son of God on a par with believing in Santa Claus. Others regard religion and especially fundamentalist faith as an often-destructive force because of what they believe it has produced over the centuries–intolerance, inquisitions, massacres, martyrdoms, religious wars. Among the evils a deep belief in the God of the Torah and New Testament has produced, they argue, is the systematic persecution of homosexuals. Thus, the Democratic platform declares: “We support marriage equality and support the movement to secure equal treatment under law for same-sex couples,” while the Republican platform calls for a “Constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.” The Republican platform is clearly rooted in traditional Christian beliefs that marriage is strictly between a man and a woman and that homosexual acts are unnatural and immoral and ruinous to body and soul. Yet, as the man from Chick-fil-A discovered when he asserted those biblically based beliefs about homosexual marriage, that opinion comes close to being a hate crime in the new dispensation. To the God-fearing and God-loving, this campaign to redefine marriage to include homosexual unions is out of a George Orwell novel. But to gay rights champions, opposition to homosexuals’ right to marry and adopt is the mark of the homophobe, the hater, the bigot. There is no common ground. But if the party platforms are irreconcilable on homosexual marriage, that is equally true of their positions on life. Here is the Democratic platform: “The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay. We oppose any and all efforts to weaken that right. … “There is no place for … government to get in the way.” Under this plank, the father has no rights whatsoever and no role in deciding whether his unborn child lives or dies. There are no parental rights. Society cannot interfere in any way with a woman’s decision to terminate her unborn child’s life at any point in her pregnancy. This is a Democratic declaration of support for partial-birth abortion in the eighth and ninth month of pregnancy should a woman so decide, with the rest of us forced to pay for that abortion. This is a form of feminist fanaticism heretofore unseen in this republic. No platform celebrating homosexual marriage and backing a woman’s right to abort her child at any time in her pregnancy can be credibly adopted by a party that also purports to revere the God of our Founding Fathers. In truth, this Democratic Party was a godless institution long before its platform writers declared it to be so. The howlers had it right. God doesn’t belong in that platform. Patrick J. Buchanan is a founding editor of TAC and the author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” Copyright 2012 Creators.com.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
very interesting...now we'll see which side wins in November...we get death by abortion with the dems and death by war with the reps.
Buchanan has always been one of my favorite editorialists, thanks to his brevity and sharp jabs usually delivered squarely on the chin. Believer or not, Pat pins the tail on The Donkey with this shot.
HA - what Hokum - both parties are as godless as Satan's sperm. Both back the Dept. of Offense's bombings murders and poisionings across the globe. God indeed. Spit. We will get BOTH via voters, no matter who "wins", we lose. I am very optimistic.
Both back the Dept. of Offense's bombings murders and poisionings across the globe. God indeed. Spit. Yep, agree 100% The Republicans, at the national level in any case, are just as godless as the Dems. They perpetually run on a platform of "ending abortion!!", yet the slaughter of babies continues over 40 years after it became "legal" by a questionable ruling by a clearly insane Supreme Court. Endless, unconstitutional "wars" against turd-world goatherders without anything remotely resembling an invasion force capable of landing marines on the beaches of Kalifornia or South Carolina. An out-of-control TSA gropes and fondles women and children in airport terminals and Ron Paul can't get any Republican co- sponsors for his proposed legislation that would curtail the TSA. No, the GOP is just as godless as the cursed demonrats.
#2. To: Ada, 4 (#0)
#3. To: Ada (#0)
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#4. To: christine (#1)
.now we'll see which side wins in November...we get death by abortion with the dems and death by war with the reps.
#5. To: tom007 (#3)
HA - what Hokum - both parties are as godless as Satan's sperm.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#6. To: Ada (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#7. To: Ada (#0) (Edited)
I do believe Buchanan is wrong here. They were objecting to Jerusalem being recognized the capital of Israel way more than they were objecting to the phrase "God-given" referring to potential.
You could even see some of them had signs that said God and America, but were still yelling NO because of the part that said they recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
God is always good!
#8. To: Ada (#0)
No it isn't. Killing Muslims based on lies and calling them ragheads is not Christian, never has been, and never will be. The Republican platform is clearly rooted in traditional Christian beliefs...
God is always good!
#9. To: X-15 (#6)
Yes, they are as God-less as the Democrats.The Republicans, at the national level in any case, are just as godless as the Dems. They perpetually run on a platform of "ending abortion!!", yet the slaughter of babies continues over 40 years after it became "legal" by a questionable ruling by a clearly insane Supreme Court. Endless, unconstitutional "wars" against turd-world goatherders without anything remotely resembling an invasion force capable of landing marines on the beaches of Kalifornia or South Carolina. An out-of-control TSA gropes and fondles women and children in airport terminals and Ron Paul can't get any Republican co- sponsors for his proposed legislation that would curtail the TSA. No, the GOP is just as godless as the cursed demonrats.
Jesus wasn't lying when he said few would follow him. Few indeed follow Jesus, most that claim to follow him are hypocrites and are as bad as or worse than those that follow the devil.
God is always good!
#10. To: Ada (#0)
The Case Against Mitt Romney stevedeace.com/news/iowa-...case-against-mitt-romney/ Mormon 'manifest destiny' www.renewamerica.com/mormon_destiny.htm Mormon tradition supposes (without a clear basis in doctrine) that the unborn don't qualify as persons because their spirit is still in heaven with God before they are born, and since the union of body and spirit that defines a human being therefore doesn't take place until birth. By this logic, abortion is ultimately harmless, they believe, though disruptive of God's designs. This helps explain Mitt's ambivalence when it comes to our nation's heated abortion debate. He sees little political importance in this "abstract" issue.
#11. To: christine (#1)
We're quite capable of having both under either candidate. As far as abortion goes, we've had several Republican presidents since R v Wade became national law and none have overturned it. I would not expect Romney to be any different in spite of or perhaps because of (past) political rhetoric. Obama will win because as Ron Paul recently said, the (perceived) peace candidate always wins. Which is NOT to say that I trust Obama not to start another war or cave in to Israeli interests, but he is perceived that way and perhaps for that reason alone will be in for another term. very interesting...now we'll see which side wins in November...we get death by abortion with the dems and death by war with the reps.
John Howard says: There are 4 schools of economics:
Marxism: steal everything
Keynesianism: steal by counterfeiting whenever needed
Chicago school (Milton Friedman): steal by counterfeiting at a steady, predictable rate
Austrians: don't steal
Democrats don't mind war as long as they can have big government. Republicans don't mind big government as long as they can have war.
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#12. To: All (#10)
In Mass., Romney raised taxes, fees
#13. To: christine (#1)
Whoever wins, we all know "We The People' lose.
#14. To: Ada (#0)
One of the platforms that consistently talks up God and the Bible is that of the Prohibition Party and I haven't heard of them winning any election.
#15. To: Lysander_Spooner (#13)
I have said it ever since it became pretty obvious the establishment was going to screw Ron--and I knew they would do that--that whether the Muslim wins or the Mormon wins, America loses. Whoever wins, we all know "We The People' lose.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi
"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken
"..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance
Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
#16. To: PnbC (#11)
you're right, of course...and as a matter of fact, there have been wars initiated by democrat admins than republican admins. We're quite capable of having both under either candidate.
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