Instapundit links a new Rasmussen poll revealing that “America is still a strongly Christian nation” and adds:
I wonder if it will become more, rather than less, that way? I was talking the other day to a fellow academic who said that he’s always been a near-agnostic Christmas-and-Easter kind of guy, but that lately, he’s feeling stirrings of actual Christianity in response to Boko Haram, etc. Could the pressures we’re seeing today convert unobservant cultural Christians into active believers?
A parallel phenomenon, I think, is that near- (or altogether-) agnostic American secular Jews are becoming more self-consciously Jewish in response to the increasing velocity and ferocity of progressive criticism of Israel. In my own case I know that 9/11 made me identify with Israel in a visceral way for the first time, and the “pivot” of Obama and his Democrats away from Israel has strengthened that identification and made Democratic foreign policy seem not only mistaken about American interests (I have long thought that) but an almost personal threat.
Apparently I’m not alone: “Cracks Appear in Democratic-Jewish Alliance Over Iran Deal, Netanyahu.”
Are we to understand that- faced with the actual actions of the “radically progressive New World Order”, the incense burner has begun to swing the other way?
Apparently so….and the Progressive Party Leaders of the New World Order are scared.
” I listen to less than loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.”
At an Easter “prayer breakfast” address no less.
I suppose he was a BIT less concerned back when he was spitting on the SCOTUS in the front row, like a Lionel Hampton preformance, during a SOTU address. But that’s just IMHO.