The Secular Roots of the Culture Wars
The following is a guest post by Andrew Hartman. Andrew is Associate Professor of History at Illinois State University and a former Fulbright Distinguished Scholar. He is a past President and current blogger at the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH). He is also chair of S-USIH’s Seventh Annual Conference to be held in Washington, DC this October (deadline for proposals is fast approaching!). Finally, Andrew is the author of two books, including the excellent forthcoming study, A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (Chicago, May 2015). Here is a brief taste of what will be one of his more interesting arguments for RIAH readers.
None of this is to say that religion did not factor into the culture wars. The growing alienation that religious conservatives felt at living in an increasingly secular nation was a crucial factor in their fighting the culture wars. But many such conservative Americans only felt their worlds coming apart once they experienced the chaos of modernity as a political force, as a movement of peoples previously excluded from the American mainstream. The radical political mobilizations of the sixties—civil rights, Black and Chicano Power, feminism, gay liberation, the antiwar movement—destabilized the America that millions knew. It was only after the 1960s that many conservatives recognized the threat to their once great nation. And it was the neocons who first recognized this threat, first taught Americans how to be afraid, and first taught Americans, including religious conservatives, how to fight back.
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Total rubbish. America was founded as a secular country, the European immigrants that founded it having just fled from religious persecution. One set of Christians against the other, you’re disgusting war mongering monsters that should be locked up for the same of humanity.
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Monotheism is designed to divisive and is the MOST effect tool the “ruling elite” have. Those of us who aren’t trapped in one can’t see any difference between the three Abrahamic religions. Oh I suppose the difference is in the unimportant details, details they have literally gone to war over. They ALL claim they are not trying to take over (they ALWAYS are). They always deny being blood thirsty murderers, or that that was in the past, “they’re different now”. They’re not. Their foundations are on the blood of innocents, period. The truth has been out for a long time, they can’t hear truth, because they don’t know what truth is. The great John Lash says it’s some kind of archontic virus. I’m certain he’s right. It’s the best explanation for their zombie like devotion to ignorance. Articles like this ALWAYS prove the point for me!