The New Hate by Arthur Goldwag

Author:Arthur Goldwag [Goldwag, Arthur]
Language: rus
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307907073
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-02-06T23:00:00+00:00

a “Edwardean” refers to Jonathan Edwards’s soteriology, which presumes mankind’s innate depravity.

b The concept of the Dajjal postdates Muhammad by several centuries; it is not mentioned in the Koran.

c Please note that I do not claim to be privy to any Masonic secrets that aren’t already in the public domain. If there are secrets that are known only to high-degree Masons, they are not known to me.

5.

The Whore of Babylon and Stealth Jihad

A lot of heat has been coming off of op-ed pages, cable-TV talk shows, and advertorials in recent years on the subject of the endemic anti-Catholic bias in American culture. Much of it has been generated by William Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. Just as AIPAC or the ADL might respond to critics of an Israeli policy regarding settlements on the West Bank or evictions in East Jerusalem with a salutary reminder of Hitler and the Holocaust, Donohue reflexively attributes everything from newspaper stories about pedophile priests to Parkinson’s patients’ complaints about the church’s stance on embryonic stem cell research to anti-Catholic bigotry.

“Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular,” Donohue notoriously answered, when Pat Buchanan solicited his thoughts about the controversy surrounding Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion of the Christ on a cable-TV talk show. “Hollywood likes anal sex,” Donohue added. “They like to see the public square without nativity scenes. I like families. I like children. They like abortions. I believe in traditional values and restraint. They believe in libertinism. We have nothing in common.”1

The Catholic League’s Web site backs up its beleaguered posture with quotations from Arthur Schlesinger Sr. (anti-Catholicism is “the deepest bias in the history of the American people”) and Peter Viereck (“Catholic baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals”).2 Both quotations contain more than a germ of truth, but it’s worth remembering that they date back to the 1950s.a The past half century has witnessed a vast sea change, both in Americans’ attitudes toward Roman Catholicism and in Catholicism itself.

When John F. Kennedy was running for president in 1960, he felt compelled to stand before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association and pledge that he would be his own man. “I am not the Catholic candidate for President,” he insisted. “I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters and my church does not speak for me.” Kennedy’s election would be a watershed in the mainstreaming of American Catholicism, which has proven itself to be as heterogeneous as the rest of the American population. The alliance that was cemented between Protestant Fundamentalism and right-wing Catholicism in the wake of Roe v. Wade has been another—one that is every bit as historically unprecedented as Fundamentalism’s newfound accord with political Zionism. “What unites Protestant fundamentalists and right-wing Catholics today, in both the religious and political arenas,” Susan Jacoby wrote in The Age of American Unreason, “is a shared hatred of secularism and the influence of secular values on culture and public life.

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