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Title: Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity by David Limbaugh ISBN: 0-89526-111-1 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (175 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A wake-up call for all parents of school children
Comment: In this well researched book, David Limbaugh offers comprehensive documentation of increasing anti-Christian bigotry in our society. He outlines specific cases that have occured in public schools, colleges, government, corporations and popular culture. In the interest of brevity, I will focus on his chapters concerning public schools.
Mr. Limbaugh describes in detail incidents of discrimination against Christian students. While schools use "seperation of church and state" to defend their actions, keeping religion out of school is not really their policy. The author points to several cases where students were forced to engage in Islamic or pagan ceremonies, while anything remotely Christian was forbidden. "Diversity" is the reason given for such actions, making the reader wonder why diversity is never a two way street. Mr. Limbaugh cites no cases in which teachers encouraged non-Christian students to better understand and respect a belief other than their own.
As one reads through the opening chapters it becomes apparent that a certain segment of our education establishment is seeking to impose a left-wing, secularist agenda on our society through our children. Parents will be justifiably alarmed, and want to become more aware of what is taking place in today's public schools.
While much of what is related in this book is infurating or depressing, the author also offers encouragement. He describes many cases in which courts have overturned egregious efforts at religious discrimination, and mentions several public interest groups which will ably represent victims of anti-Christian discrimination free of charge.
Rating: 4
Summary: What Elephant in the Living Room?
Comment: David Limbaugh's "Persecution" forces us to look squarely up the trunk of the elephant in the liberal living room: the "secret" that the modern-day heirs of a political tradition built on fighting for justice, tolerance, and freedom have become some of the most unjust, intolerant oppressors in recent American history, at least where Christianity is concerned. Limbaugh documents case after case of religious discrimination perpretrated by liberals against Christians, all in the name of tolerance and open mindedness.
We might expect a book entitled "Persecution" to be only another mindless rant from a stereotypical uneducated fundamentalist. But this is not the case here. Limbaugh does veer into the territory of diatribe every so often, but the bulk of his book is a series of carefully documented incidents of liberals denying Christians opportunities in employment, education, and even freedom of speech. Opening up "Persecution" to a random page, we find successful college football coach Ron Brown denied a head coaching position because of his religious beliefs. Turn a few more pages and we find a public office in Dade County Florida having Hannukah and Kwanzaa displays set up during the Christmas holiday season, but prohibiting a nativity scene. One more turn and we find a town in California ordering a church to take down a banner advertising summer vacation Bible school, while other organizations had banners on display throught the town. I just grabbed these cases at random from the book. You will also find cases of Christians being fired and sued for things like wearing crosses or keeping a Bible on their work desk.
Limbaugh details discriminations that Christians have faced in public schools, universities, government, industry, and in the media and entertainment industries. If you are the least bit unsure that Christians are getting less than a fair shake in many sectors of modern public life, "Persecution" should put an end to all your doubts.
The book is not without its problems. First and foremost is the lion on the front cover. That's certainly overkill. Despite Limbaugh's clear chapter headings ("The Battle for the Academy", "Muzzling Public Officials, Employees, and Appointees", etc.), the book could use some better organization. More than once I found myself trying to remember just what the current chapter was supposed to be about. The next to last chapter, where Limbaugh attempts to demonstrate the relationship between the Founders' Christian faith and their politics is, unfortunately, the weakest. I think he makes his point, but he could have made it stronger by supplying us with more quotes from original sources and less from modern commentators. (I couldn't help but notice that he quotes quite a bit here from writers who were published by his own publisher.) And he gets a few things wrong. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, was an out and out Deist, Limbaugh's arguments to the contrary notwithstanding. (Given T.J.'s numerous and egregious moral shortcomings, if someone want to call him a Deist, it's perfectly OK with me.)
But these blemishes do not detract from the validity of the work in any important respect. Not many honest options are open to us if we want to disagree with Limbaugh. We can try to refute his documentation point by point. Good luck. (In this regard, my admittedly non-exhaustive perusal of this page's 1-star reviews has turned up none that actually deal with the cases Limbaugh presents.) Or, we can try to show that plenty of groups in America are being similarly disadvantaged -- that things are tough all over. This tack seems to hold little promise either. We might try to say that Limbaugh is just going to bat for his poitical "religious right" cronies. But this won't do either. Not many of the people he defends in this book are "political." Most of them that are "poltical" became so because it was the only way they could see to secure for themselves the rights and privileges those around them enjoy.
"Persecution" is not the book to read if you want to know what everyone else is reading. Limbaugh's audience will be mainly conservative Christians, the people least in need of his book. However, if you're wondering what that big pachyderm-looking thing behind the sofa is that only the Christians are pointing at, "Persecution" will draw back the curtains and let you seeit in the full light of day.
Rating: 5
Summary: Direct hit, and a definite must read.
Comment: Limbaugh is dead-on as he takes on the secularists and the rest of the theophobic/Christophobic Left in "Persecution." The Left is relentless in their efforts to tear down this country tradition by tradition as they seek to destroy the values, traditions and institutions that have made America great. It's time we woke up to the reality that "Separation" of church & state is a myth. The First Amendment merely prevents our government from establishing a state-run religion/church. It does not prohibit the public expression of any religion (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc.). It also says nothing to prohibit people of faith from participating in the political process, whether by voting for candidates who best represent our values or by actually jumping into the political arena itself and running for office. Limbaugh steps up to the plate and knocks one out of the park with this book, making sure that the Christophobes know that we are NOT going down without a fight.
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Title: Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America by Laura Ingraham ISBN: 0895261014 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by ANN COULTER ISBN: 1400050308 Publisher: Crown Forum Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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