Jon Schaff at SDP took it to Todd Epp for his must read of must reads. Here is Schaff’s ending:
The article Todd links to is filled with half-truths, downright falsehoods (the Pope is crowned?), and thinly veiled bigotry. If Todd does not agree with this article he should repudiate it. If he does agree, then I am sorry to say I have lost much respect for him and I believe he should be shamed out of legitimate political discourse.
I doubt Todd will repudiate it because it supports his secular socialists ideology. The secular support was the if you're Christian you’re a Nazi theme of the piece. Here Schaff responds to the false allegation:
The idea that a Germany steeped in Nietzsche, Rilke, Wagner and Heidegger was captured in the throes of the Christian evangelist named Hitler is stupid beyond belief. The author fails to note that Hitler was the master propagandist. The effective propagandist wraps his absurdity in the truth, and so Hitler recognized the value of Christian language for a people who still wore the window dressing of Christianity. The author repeats the libels against Pius XII, which I will leave unremarked upon except to direct you to this essay by South Dakota's own Joseph Bottum on the subject.
And here is the socialist part when Schaff references Marxism:
This view of Jesus as militant has more in common with the Marxist inspired liberation theology of Central and South American than it does with orthodox Catholicism (indeed it was denounced by John Paul II) or evangelical Protestantism. I point out as a matter of fact it getting conservative Christians, especially evangelicals, politically involved in the 1970s was difficult precisely because of a religious distain for politics as being too "worldly."
What some call the far-left of the Democrat Party are secular socialists and not liberal and certainly not progressive.
As I pointed out in my previous post, the Democrats can't win elections by being honest and admitting they are secular socialists. Thankfully the blogosphere helps us flush out the true values of today's Democrat.
