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Threatened by Secularists and ‘Totalitarian’ Progressives
By Peter Montgomery | March 2, 2020 9:57 am
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/attorney-general-william-barr-claims-u-s-threatened-by-secularists-and-totalitarian-progressives/
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U.S. Attorney General William Barr addressedthe National Religious Broadcasters’ 2020 Christian media convention last Wednesday in Nashville, where he said that we live in a time when religion is “being driven from the public square” by intolerant secularists. Barr blamed the country’s intensely polarized politics on courts that have fostered a policy of “official hostility” toward religion and “militant” and “totalitarian” progressives who he said are pursuing a policy agenda that is “aggressively collectivist, socialist and explicitly revolutionary.”
Barr told NRB attendees that our passionate political divisions reflect two fundamentally different visions of the relationship between the individual and the state. One view is represented, he said, by liberal democracy—“liberal” not in the sense of liberal versus conservative politics, but in the sense of classical liberalism’s belief in limited government and personal liberty. Barr said that viewpoint is grounded is grounded in Augustinian Christianity, which views government as a necessarily evil whose limited function is to keep peace on earth. “The other vision,” he said, “propels a form of totalitarian democracy, which seeks to submerge the individual in a collectivist agenda.” That prophet for that vision, he said, was 18th Century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and its first fruit was the French Revolution.
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Given Barr’s previous speeches, his denigration of secularists and progressives is not surprising. But it was still striking how many of the traits that he ascribed to totalitarian leftists are actually spot-on descriptions of how the religious right and Trump’s MAGA world activists operate.
For example, Barr charged that militants who participate in “secular messianic” movements “tend to see their opponents as evil” and are “entirely comfortable demonizing their opponents.” Cluelessness, double standard, or gaslighting?
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