DARK AGENDA: The War to Destroy Christian America
In Dark Agenda, New York Times bestselling author David Horwitz exposes not only the progressive war against Christianity, but also a war against America and its founding principles, which are Christian in their origin. Dark Agenda is about an embattled religion, but most of all, it is about our imperiled nation. Tackling a broad range of issues from prayer in the schools to the globalist mindset, Horowitz traces the anti-Christian movement to its roots in communism. When the communist empire fell, progressives did not want to give up their utopian anti-God illusions, so instead they merely changed the name of their dream. Instead of “communism,” progressives have re-branded their movement as “social justice.” Dark Agenda shows how the progressives are prepared to use any means necessary to stifle their opponents who support the concepts of religious liberty that America was founded on, and how the battle to destroy Christianity is really the battle to destroy America.
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Best book yet on the radical leftist war on Christianity
Few know the inside working of the communist left like David Horowitz. Not only was he raised by communist party member parents, but he was one of the principle founders of the New Left during the 1960s and 1970s. He has a powerful intellectual mind that can not only retain a great deal of facts and historical events, but he astutely analyzes these facts with an insight that is difficult to compare. He is one of the great minds of the modern world. This book should be included in the reading material of all high school children as well as university and college students. It is difficult for the rational mind to comprehend how anyone possessing a rational mind could disagree with the major themes of this most important work. The radical left is destroying the very fabric of a compassionate, orderly and Christian world with lies, distortions, violence, false history and intimidation. Perhaps this will wake up some of these stuporous minds.
Horowitz Understands the Left
As an individual who wrote articles for the left and has a true understanding of their motivations Horowitz writes another insightful expose of their plans. "Dark Agenda" is an excellent book - as are many of his books. To be anti-Christian is no different than being anti-Semitic. As a Jew I know that Christianity as a worldview received most of its values from ours. It is the closest world religion to Judaism. Attacks on Christians and their values is an attack on Judaism as well and many values which we hold as true. This book explains in detail how the Left is attacking Christians and their values. Regardless of how one feels about Christianity, the concept of demonizing a group based on their religion is unacceptable. We Jews were singled out for hate in Germany which ultimately led to the Holocaust. This kind of hate should never happen again for any group. Learn about the real reason the Left attacks Christians. It is not because they understand Christianity (they don't) and choose not to be believers. The true reason is much more nefarious as Horowitz reveals.
Read this book only if your already believe the subtitle but not if you want facts.
As I read this book I was struck by the fact that the author does not seem fully rational. For example, he claims that President Reagan's nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Robert Bork, in 1987 was defeated by a "vicious" attack on his character and judgement by Senator Ted Kennedy. I remember the Saturday Night Massacre in October of 1973. When President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox; Richardson refused and resigned. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox; Ruckelshaus refused, and also resigned. Nixon then ordered the third-most-senior official at the Justice Department, Solicitor General Robert Bork, to fire Cox. And Bork did it. I always considered that to show a fatal flaw in Bork's judgement. On page 107 of the book is a bold misstatement of fact when writing about the public attitudes toward interracial marriage. He writes that in 1958 only 4 % of whites approved of interracial marriages but by 2013 the approval rate had jumped to 87%. He continues, "There was no Supreme Court decision that declared interracial marriage to be a constitutional right." He is ignoring the decision of Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, on June 12, 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage as violations of the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Jew Defends Christianity, WASPS; Attacks Leftists
David Horowitz, a self described “red diaper baby” of New York Jews, goes to the ramparts in an attack on the Left’s war against Christianity. A clear synopsis of 50 years of the characters, history and ideology of the “progressive” assault on the white Protestant Christian values which establish the idea of America. Uniquely, and unapologetically, Horowitz describes how the core Protestant Christian RELIGIOUS beliefs, “justification by faith,” and “the priesthood of all believers,” established the idea of America: checks and balances, equally before the law, freedom of conscious, and diversity. Following the tradition of the French Enlightenment, however, today’s leftists have attacked all religious principles as “unreasonable” and “illogical.” Indeed, cultural rejection of all religious principles is NECESSARY for the leftist revolution to succeed. Horowitz particularly details how the Left has used the power of the unelected Supreme Court, instead of the democratic legislative process, to achieve its cultural objectives. Horowitz’s brief and lucid descriptions of all of the key Supreme Court religion precedents are accessible to a layman, even explaining how the “establishment” clause has been interpreted to eviscerate the guarantee of the right to the “free exercise” of religion, in the same First Amendment. An important, unique treatise on the issue lying at the heart of our culture war and explaining the requirement to resolve this conflict to achieve peace. Highly Recommend.
Obama was the worst president
We only thought Obama was a bad president ,this book documents his reign of left treason to America. I hope everyone reads this book.
How the left and the communists are destroying America and everything that is sacred to us all
Every American that is for the sanctity of life and Marriage should read this. We need to reclaim our schools. Great Job
Great book for Conservatives.
It defines our history over the last 50 years. He articulates the urgency we need to have to save our country.
Crisp linkage of multiple intellectual threads in a fairly short book
David Horowitz has always been a writer whose work I’ve appreciated since his compelling political biography, Radical Son, which related the author’s break from his communist upbringing after Black Panther associates murdered his bookkeeper friend Betty Van Patter. But brevity and crisp linkage of multiple intellectual threads were never characteristic of Horowitz’s brilliant, often voluminous, exposés of leftist thought and practice. By contrast, Dark Agenda is a concise, chilling book brimming with evidence that links numerous cultural depredations to one overriding theme: The left’s attack on Christian America’s founding in the name of “cultural Marxism.” “Christian America” is the novel component in Horowitz’s analysis, a term that acknowledges the historical fact that America, at its founding, was 98 percent Protestant. Protestantism, in turn, was intimately linked to the doctrine of “the priesthood of all believers” and to the more broadly Christian idea that all people are created by God. In view of these beliefs and the fact that Protestant groups were living side by side, it followed that in America there would be no institutional or governmental mediator between the individual and God. It also meant that each individual’s rights were endowed solely by their Creator and that freedom of conscience and speech would be hallmarks of the new republic. “Cultural Marxism,” by contrast, represents the application of its “oppressor versus oppressed” vision of society to various victim groups: blacks, “people of color,” women, native Americans, homosexuals, transsexuals, and any other group claiming victimhood. For Marxists what stands between these oppressed groups and a world in which “social justice” and equality is fully realized are the oppressors, those who supposedly establish the laws and mores that keep them in power. Thus, failure or success isn’t the result of individual choices but the inevitable outcome of a system designed to unfairly help one group (white, Christian, males) and harm the others. Accordingly, what matters politically is destroying the patriarchal Christian system itself with its emphasis on individual moral and economic choices and replacing it with a group-focused system that, in my own words, oppresses the oppressors. Put quite simply, “Christian doctrines were foundational to the American Republic, which the left despises.” After reading the last two paragraphs, one might think Dark Agenda is highly philosophical and abstract. This impression couldn’t be further from the truth, as these core ideas are given clear expression and development via an array of examples, many of which are doubtless unknown to even the most politically-astute readers. Who knew, for example, that the $621 million U.S. Capitol Visitor Center that opened in 2008 “is less a monument to the nation’s founding and institutions than it is to the anti-religious left’s vision for America. When it opened, all references to God and faith had been carefully, deliberately edited out of its photos and historical displays.” For example, the national motto was said to be “E Pluribus Unum” when, in fact, it is “In God We Trust.” Among other historical travesties, a large “image of the Constitution was photoshopped to remove the worlds ‘in the Year of our Lord’ above the signatures of the signers.” Similarly, the “table on which President Lincoln placed his Bible during his second inauguration is on display -- just the table, not the Bible.” These examples are picayune compared to the spiteful governmental coercion that’s been employed to force The Little Sisters of the Poor, among others, to violate their consciences thanks to Obamacare abortion provisions. The Supreme Court has been the giant secular lever employed by leftists to fundamentally transform “Christian America” into a state hostile even to a school-girl who joined hands with classmates to give thanks for her food. These politically-motivated “lawyers,” as Horowitz contemptuously labels the high court, began their anti-Christian, anti-Constitutional mission with the expulsion of prayer from public schools in 1962 (Engel v. Vitale). That assault on the free exercise of religion now extends beyond commencement ceremonies and football fields to a bakery that was embroiled in legal battles for years for refusing to provide a celebratory cake for a gay wedding -- a “crime” made possible by Court rulings against the Defense of Marriage Act and in favor of same-sex marriage. The case of Roe v. Wade (1972) that awakened religious conservatives to the fundamental attack on Christian America is cogently dissected in Dark Agenda, both from a Constitutional perspective as well as through the eyes of Norma McCorvey, the anonymous “Jane Roe” who was intentionally deceived and reduced to a legal prop to secure the Supreme Court’s “right to privacy” abortion ruling. (As Horowitz notes, in Marxist thought it’s the grand arc of history and oppressed groups that matter, not mere individuals.) That ruling officially brought about the cultural civil war that for the anti-Christian left involves not simply a virulent hatred of President Trump but also hatred directed toward his supporters who are regularly vilified as Nazis, sexists, racists, homophobes, and “deplorables” who are rightly denied freedom of speech and conscience. Trump’s Oval Office predecessor did his best to stoke these emotions as Horowitz’s litany of anti-Christian comments and actions by President Obama illustrate -- from avoiding religious references during a traditional Thanksgiving ceremony to pursuit of a foreign policy that led to the annihilation of the ancient Christian community in Syria. Among the sidebars accompanying Horowitz’s central narrative are insights into the abusive and mendacious character of atheist Madelyn Murray. For example, in 1960 Murray “set out with her two sons . . . intending to renounce her American citizenship and defect to the Soviet Union.” Her repeated attempts at emigration were rebuffed by the Soviets who were probably aware of her emotional instability and violent outbursts. Murray’s revolutionary predecessor, Margaret Sanger, was also a communist sympathizer and racist. A 1930 article in The New Yorker about Ms. Sanger noted that her monthly newspaper, Woman Rebel, “mixed its birth-control propaganda with a good deal of red-flag-waving, and perorations of the ‘Workers of the World, Arise!’ variety.” The author also observed that she “composed an editorial declaring: ‘Even if dynamite were to serve no other purpose than to call forth the spirit of revolutionary solidarity and loyalty, it would prove its great value.’” Horowitz ends Dark Agenda with this chilling paragraph reminiscent of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “A nation divided by such fundamental ideas -- individual freedom on one side and group identity on the other -- cannot long endure, any more than could a nation that was half slave and half free. The urgency that drew the religious right into politics fifty years ago is now an urgency of the nation itself.” Even individuals well aware of the cultural Civil War that now rages in America would do well do arm themselves with the insights in this book -- insights that both explain the ideological roots of the conflict and document a host of grievous wounds that “Christian America” has already suffered. Horowitz, an honest agnostic, is doing his best to prevent those wounds from becoming mortal. Richard Kirk is a freelance writer living in Southern California whose book "Moral Illiteracy: 'Who's to Say?'" is also available on Kindle
This Kind of Silly Book Will Destroy Consevatism
Complete and utter tripe based on paranoia and ignorance. At some point the right is going to have to stop this sort of thing because the Republican Party is shrinking as it drifts further into extremist ideology.
Full of untrue propaganda
All untrue propaganda. I see why he has a poor reputation
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