The Decline of Liberalism Threatens Secularism in America

By CJ Werleman

August 26, 2014 | Liberalism as we know it—the body of thought that gave rise to the idea that a government of the people for the people is a worthy experiment—is under assault. Secular Americans be warned: the collapse of liberalism will mean the collapse of secularism. Let me explain.

Christian totalitarians seek to transform America’s secular democracy into a tyrannical theocracy. From Oklahoma to North Carolina, from Kansas to Kentucky, state legislatures have been turned into theocratic test tubes, and now we helplessly watch Frankenstein’s monster hatch.

Over the course of the past three decades the Christian Right has moved from the fringes of the Republican Party to become the main strain of the Republican Party. If “moderate” Republicans choose against adopting the cultural positions of America’s rabid theocrats, they’re inevitably frog marched and purged from the party, vis-à-vis House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.