Book Review of Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America

Grace and Peace to each of you on today.

I am very thankful and humbled by the increased readership of Daily Spiritual Manna, from firstfruitsperspective.org. It is truly our desire and delight toward encouraging and informing our readers about the all-important need for each of us to feed our spirit throughout our lives.

One of these new ways is demonstrated in this week’s blog post which is an overview of a book review from David Horowitz, a New York Times bestselling author and leading conservative thinkers of his generation.

If there is one Summer book that is a must read for any person who is an American citizen, David Horowitz’s book Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America is that book, https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-agenda-david-horowitz/1128961955#/

This book serves as a prophetic warning that historically, outlines the major events that were systemically devised toward attacking and destroying Christians and their beliefs. If not stopped, if, at all possible, all Americas are threatened in every aspect of our lives.

I highly recommend this book to each of you who have supported, prayed and encouraged firstfruitsperspective.org over the last four years. Below, I will highlight the progressive nature by which secular humanist and extreme atheist were granted favor in the most significant rulings, philosophies that have forever changed the way we are to live in our country. #healthyselfchallenge

The War: Chapter 1

Religion must Die

Horowitz begins to lay down in chapter one, the foundation of his argument by historically pen-pointing and comparing other revolutionaries who have regarded religion as the enemy of progress and the mask of oppression. He discusses that ” since it’s birth in the fires of the French Revolution, the political left has been at war with religion, and with the Christian religion in particular.

In a symbolic revolutionary act, the Jacobin leaders of the French Revolution change the names of the Cathedral of Notre Dame https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-france-paris-notre-dame-guedelon-20190528-story.html to the “Temple of Reason.”

Then, in the name of “reason,” they proceeded to massacre the inhabitants of the Vendee’ region of west-central France because its citizens were Catholics.

Horowitz, a Jew then records that this massacre has been called the first modern genocide, but it was far from the last. Karl Marx famously described religion as “the opium of the people” and “the sigh of the oppressed.” Inspired by his hatred ever since revolutionaries have regarded religion as the enemy of progress and the mask of oppression.”

Our author states that the radicals in America today don’t have the political power to execute religious people and destroy their houses of worship. However, they openly declare their desire to obliterate religion. In their minds, their intentions are noble-they want to save the human race from the social injustice and oppression that religion allegedly inflicts on humanity.

Before Horowitz concludes chapter one, he unveils the mentality of what he calls The New Atheists. He points to the principal manifesto of the New Atheist movement published in 2006, written by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion.

Dawkins, in his book, maintains that post-Darwinian scientific advances have rendered any belief in God irrational and unnecessary. To make the case, Dawkins’s argument drastically narrows the compass of religious teachings, viewing them as crude and fallacy-ridden attempts to provide non-scientific accounts of natural force and phenomena.

The most telling aspect of Dawkins’s argument is the unscientific animus with which it is pursued. Horowitz states that the vitriol that infuses Dawkins’s book suggests an agenda that is not wholly, or even primarily, intellectual:

“The God of the OT is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

Radical Faith: Chapter 3

The next agenda that the secular humanist and atheist are pushing is the censorship against freedom of expression, as noted by the liberal psychologist Nicholas Humphrey wished to censor the moral and religious education that children receive.

He is quoted, “children have a right not to have their minds addled by nonsense. And we as a society have a duty to protect them from it. So we should no more allow parents to teach their children to believe, for example, in the literal truth of the Bible…

Horowitz seized this moment to pose an important question, where have such notions been heard before? Where has the teaching of the Christian faith been described as child abuse? The answer-in Communist Russia and other totalitarian states.

Our author furthers his analysis of this issue by discussing that we are not to mistake this as a parochial issue, affecting only a persecuted religious community. In America, the war against Christians is not merely a war against an embattled religion.

It is a war against an imperiled nation-a war against this nation and its founding principles: the equality of individuals and individual freedom. For these principles are indisputable Christian in origin? They are under siege because they are insurmountable obstacles to radicals’ totalitarian ambition to create a new world in their image. What a profound and very dangerous statement!

Historically, when Soviet Communism collapsed in 1991, Horowitz contends that progressives did not give up their illusions. Instead, they changed the name of their utopian dream. Today they no longer call their earthly redemption “Communism.” They call it “social justice.”

Like Communism, social justice is an impossible future in which the inequalities and oppressions that have afflicted human beings for millennia will miraculously vanish and social harmony will rule.

The French socialist Auguste Comte called his faith”the religion of humanity,” to distinguish it from the religion of God!

Our author closes out chapter 3 theologically arguing the Godly case for divine intervention within the scope of the church doctrine “original sin.” The question what causes injustice is answered in this matter, “Free will make us the authors of our own choices, our own sins, our own fates-not other people, not classes or races or genders.

The potential for evil is present in every individual down through the generations. Because human beings are rebellious and prone to temptation and evil, they will corrupt every effort of redemption. Therefore, there can be no path to an earthly paradise without divine intervention.

Christian America– Chapter 4

Throughout history, the conquering power over other nations or people, all share most common actions: the thief of others glory, inventions, acts, etc. while claiming them for the ruling power, and next, the attempt at erasing all previous history of past generations.

Chapter 4 outlines ways in which all references of God and faith had been carefully, deliberately edited out of the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. One panel claimed that the national motto of the United States is E Pluribus Unum [Out of Many, One]. But the reality is that the national motto, as established by an act in Congress in 1956, is “In God We Trust.”

A Secular Republic Built by Christians

Many Americans today have to reflect if not appreciate the historic spiritual and biblical underpinning that pioneered and established the U.S. as a secular republic that is so due to the Christian beliefs of its religious founders-mainly the Protestant Christian beliefs.

Horowitz cites the clear and highly religious purpose of the Pilgrims in the Mayflower Compact. He contends that this document was the first civil government established by a social contract.

The Mayflower Compact embodies the idea that governmental authority derives from the consent of the governed and that all its citizen are entitled to equal treatment under the law. These ideas became the core principles of the future American nation.

By 1776, the colonists had come to a revolutionary conclusion. These experiments in the colonial government had persuaded them that the theocratic government was not only a bad idea but an un-Christian idea as well. A theocracy was invariable oppressive because it allowed no room for dissent, no freedom of conscience for the individual.

America as noted by our author that the founding Father contended that the government required a system of checks and balance to restrain the devious impulses and desires of its citizens and officials. The very heart of the eventual drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is based upon two core doctrines of the Protestant Reformation: “justification by faith” and “the priesthood of all believers.”

The remainder of Dark Agenda reveals the subverted legal manner in which the liberal establishment started crafting “their new millennium” by banishing anything Christian. Below is their successful victories:

The removal of prayer in the schools; the violent and shocking manifesto of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger [she believed that birth control was the means by which she intended to change the world.] Next after the fight over contraception, abortion was granted in an attempt at furthering “women’s liberation.”

The next empowering creation that was created by the liberals was the religious right’s stance against abortion which pulled the evangelicals and Catholics into this cultural fight.

The next cultural revolution to demand and win their “rights” was the gay power movement and how the extreme leftist assault rewrote freedom and equality legally.

In Closing

There is no better way to conclude this blog post than permitting David Horowitz own words to end this book review. Thank you for reading this blog post, and do read this book!

“Religious liberty is America’s first freedom and the foundation of all American freedoms. It’s the reason America’s settlers and founders came to these shores and why they set up America’s system of unalienable rights.”

“Freedom of conscience, derived from “the priesthood of all believers,” is the cornerstone of American pluralism, making possible the diversity of America’s communities, their equality under the law, and their ability to peacefully coexist.”

“The left’s attacks on religious freedom and general hatred for those who don’t agree with them are driven by “identity politics.” Identity politics is an anti-American ideology and a sanitized name for cultural Marxism.

Marx viewed market societies as divided into capitalists and workers, to which he ascribed moral attributes: oppressors and oppressed. Society as the site of continual warfare between these classes.

Finally, “cultural Marxists have extended this picture of class warfare to races, gender, and sexual orientations, attributing all inequality and injustice to the institutions and actions of the oppressor groups: white, males, heterosexuals, and religious “reactionaries”-in particular, Christians-whose views allegedly serve the interests of the oppressors.”