The coming Presidential Election of 2008, will be a knock down, drag out fight between the atheists that have taken over the US and the Christians whose noses were bloodied in the Election of 2006.
Maybe the victory of the Republicans in the Election of 2004, when they swept both Houses of Congress only to lose them in 2006, was after all due to the bad weather that swept the nation and the rumor that liberals aren't as motivated to go out and stand in lines to vote in the rain.
In previous elections, political campaigns used to start one year before the election; however, this time the campaigns started almost two years before the election and one year before the primaries. Also, in the past, no candidate who was not a White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, (and mainline Christian,) could consider running. Not only that, he had to be preferably a married man, with children, and never divorced.
So what we have in this election are candidates who are not members of the mainline churches. In fact, no one is even talking about what faith they belong to; but occasionally some of them say they are Christian. Nevertheless, we have candidates who are raised Muslim, Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, and who knows what else. And, most definitely, we have atheists too. They might not come out and say it, but we have atheists running for office this time.
This is a major paradigm shift in US history.
We must not forget that atheist professors have dominated American schools in the 20th Century. They have brain-washed five generations of American children in believing that Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" is the irrefutable truth. Today, no educated man or woman can be taken seriously if they believe that God created the universe. And this philosophy is the dominant force in American life and the US Government.
So what we can expect in the future from this Democratic Congress is the continued outlawing of Christian values in public schools and public life, and ultimately the total secularization of the Three Branches of Government. The President of the United States will no longer be sworn in with his hand on the Bible, the Senate and House of Representatives will no longer begin their sessions with a prayer glorifying God, and the Supreme Court will have to remove all symbols of Christianity and religion from Court Buildings and remove all reference to God from the laws.
In some ways, there are advantages to secularization, now that we are faced with the escalation of Terrorist campaigns against the US and Europe. Democratic Administrations and politicians will be able to explain to the Terrorists that they are wrong to take issue with the US on account of Americans are Christians. The Democrats can tell the Terrorists very forthrightly that Americans are not Christian, but secular.
A Democratic President can tell the Terrorists that if they are fighting the US because Americans oppose Islamic Extremism, that they should stop, because Americans have no qualms about Islam, whether moderate or extreme. He can even assure them that (if this trend in US politics continues) that the US will be persecuting Christianity in the future, or at least keeping it under control, and in fact he can point to some examples of this persecution already. I don't think the Terrorists can expect the Democrats to go all out and commit genocide against Christianity in the US; but if they should insist on it, I'm optimistic that the Democrats will stand their ground and fight for the right of all Americans to remain secular!
The battle brewing in the Presidential Election of 2008 is no less than the most significant defining moment in US history. This shift in paradigm that has already taken place, as a result of the Regime Change that the Democrats affected in the Interim Election of 2006, sets the stage for the final battle between the Americans of Faith and the Americans of No Faith.
The Americans of Faith hold that the freedom of religion is the gift of the founding fathers to the American people, as recorded in the Constitution. The Americans of No Faith abandon the freedom of religion and offer in exchange the freedom from religion, as they shall attempt to repeal the Constitution.
Although these issues are not so well defined, the battle brewing will be fought on fake issues, as no line in the sand can be drawn during the sandstorm that will be the Election of 2008.