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This assault is not happening from accident or whim. It is happening because disaffected liberals have deliberately set out to upend our Judeo-Christian traditions. Indeed, they are determined to tear down the traditional norms, values, and institutions that have been part of American society from its founding. The cultural debris that these saboteurs have created will take decades to clean up.

In feisty prose Donohue explores our nation where a college student is threatened with expulsion because she prayed on campus, a civil rights organization protests a statue of Jesus found on the ocean floor and a housewife sues a school district to stop the singing of Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer at a school choral production. These are just a few examples cited that demonstrate a culture descending into madness.

Donohue takes no prisoners as he digs out and exposes the groups behind this all-out attack on our Christian traditions. Among these are the radical atheists, the proponents of multiculturalism, the sexual libertines, the Hollywood elite with their not-so-hidden agenda and lawyers who collaborate for profit.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #12534 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-02
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

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About the Author
William Donohue has been the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights since 1993. Founded in 1973, the League works to safeguard both the religious freedom and free speech of Catholics in America. Trained as an educator, he began his teaching career at St. Lucy's School in New York's Spanish Harlem and went on to teach sociology at La Roche College in Pittsburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University.

He serves on many boards, including the Washington Legal Foundation, the Jewish Action Alliance, Ave Maria Institute and the Christian Film & Television commission.

Dr. Donohue lives on Long Island, New York.

Customer Reviews

Donohue hits the bullseye with this book
There's no question that secularists hate the Catholic church. Their attacks have been growing in intensity over the last century. This coming Christmas season, New York schools are allowed to display menorahs and star and crescents, but never, ever, nativity scenes.

Donohue, with a kind of gloomy relish, goes through the long list of outrages over the last few decades, and boy, does he have evidence. For example, there is the 'art' displayed in our museums, which includes such masterpieces as Saatchi's painting of the Virgin Mary "that was laced with elephant dung and spotted with pictures of vaginas and anuses" (p 64). If a Jewish rabbi had been portrayed like that, or Mohammad, imagine the outrage.

But the secularists, not to mention the ACLU, seem unable to see the paradox. When Catholic bishops threaten to withhold the Eucharist from pro-abortion politician, secularists everywhere are furious. Funny how they supported the idea when Archbishop Rummel "was busy excommunicating...Catholic politicians for their pro-segregation" (p 162) policies.

And who can forget such delights as Disney's film 'Priest' a vicious attack on the church which portrayed priests as drunks, wicked, or madmen. Oh yes, and the kindly Disney executives chose to open the film on Good Friday, the holiest day of the year for Catholics.

It's not as if the American people don't realize what's happening. Donohue states that "In 2008, a poll...found that 61% of Americans say they believe 'Religious values are under attack in this country' (p 19). The real question is whether those who disagreed with the statement have watched any movies or TV in the last twenty years.

The hatred of the Catholic church is intense. Some of the more revealing statements: NARAL's pro-abortion Lader called the Catholicism "the real enemy" (p 43). What Lader really despised was "the influence of its religious morality" (p 43), which pretty much sums things up for all those who are anti-Catholic.

And if the statements aren't enough, there's always action, such as the action of the gay ACT-UP members who spit Hosts onto the ground, an act of desecration.

Donohue still finds hope in the situation, and good for him. Personally, I don't. Anyone who is interested in the topic may want to read "Culture Counts" by Scruton. It talks about the fall of western civilization due to the disintegration of religious belief.

Touched me more than a Catholic priest...
A spanking good read from an informed and eloquent theologian. Send this modest servant of god $$$

Survival in Jeopardy
As we learn in this outstanding though disturbing book, when Pope John XXIII decided in the early 1960s to open the Catholic Church's windows to the modern world, little did he know that, as George Weigel puts it, he was opening these windows "just as the modern western world was barreling into a dark tunnel full of poisonous fumes" that included the toxins Dr. Donohue terms "radical individualism and a celebration of narcissism."

The author chronicles the ensuing devastation that resulted in a growing 45-year-old assault by nihilists, relativists and liberals out to destroy religion (especially the Catholic Church) and a culture of decency in America.

The author is a scholar who meticulously references his facts. Some of the most astounding things one learns are the extent to which this sabotage against the Catholic Church has been vigorously promoted by some affiliated with the Church (members, nuns, ordained clergy), government officials, demented academics who should know better, lawyers who pervert the law and the Constitution to advance their own sordid agendas, the art community, and Hollywood elites who cannot even fathom that transcendent truths and sexual morality exist.

We learn of the resulting decimation of mainline Protestantism to near irrelevancy due to its eagerness to accommodate itself to modernity's long-term love affair with uncertainty and equivocation. Not surprising, the fastest growing groups of Christians are Evangelicals and those remaining orthodox, weary of decades of absurdities challenging the fundamentals of Christianity that were essentially settled 1,500 years ago. Despite their differences, loyal Catholics, Evangelicals, and fundamentalists have more in common today than ever in their united effort to stop this madness.

This fine book ends on a positive tone, noting that most Catholic dissidents are now senior citizens and younger people of faith don't buy their nonsense. Also, serious Christians have been having children who most likely will derail the secular sabotage. The malcontents now in their twilight years have been too busy fanatically obsessed as adults with trivial pursuits to think about producing the next generations to any significant degree.

No society in history has ever flourished or endured without a commitment to no-nonsense religion. Every person interested in this nation's survival as one of any consequence should read this book, given that the current federal administration essentially embraces all of the self-destructive and insane ideas this book so eloquently decries.