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CALLER: Well, it just seems to me that religion is, you know, if you\u2019re not a religious person in this country then you don\u2019t have a voice. You don\u2019t have a say. You\u2019re not entitled to an opinion.<\/p>\nRUSH: To the phones, Merrick, New York, this is David. Glad you called, sir. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Fine, thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good. Now, I was just telling your screener it seems that religion has become a major, major problem in this country. My personal opinion, I feel that we went to war, you know, to free people and we\u2019re becoming the country that we tried to free.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How so?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, it just seems to me that religion is, you know, if you\u2019re not a religious person in this country then you don\u2019t have a voice. You don\u2019t have a say. You\u2019re not entitled to an opinion.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Uh, really? I don\u2019t see that. Are you not a religious person?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, personally I\u2019ve been turned off to religion because of religious people. You know, I find them to be very demanding.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, but is anybody stopping you from expressing your opinion about anything?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s not so much that, it\u2019s that everything is based, every decision is based on religious things. I understand the country was formed on a religious basis but it\u2019s just become a point where if you\u2019re not a religious guy then, you know, religious people can\u2019t understand why something like Terri Schiavo should have been a personal, private matter with a family matter and not a religious issue. This is the kind of thing that drives a lot of us crazy.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you know, I think what\u2019s happening here, David, is a lack of understanding. And the reason there\u2019s a lack of understanding is because there\u2019s a wall of fear. If not you, a lot of people on the left have fear about religious people, and the fear is rooted in the in fact that you think they\u2019re going to try to tell you how to live and they\u2019re going to try to impose things on you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, they do every day, Mr. Limbaugh.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, no, no, wait that\u2019s not really what they\u2019re doing. That\u2019s not what they\u2019re doing. You brought up Schiavo. In fact, let\u2019s go to something more recent than Schiavo, and that is the whole week-long mourning and funeral for Pope John Paul II. I said many times that the left is watching this and they\u2019re probably quivering and they\u2019re shaking because they\u2019re afraid. They don\u2019t understand. The reason they don\u2019t understand is because they don\u2019t understand what animated John Paul. John Paul was not out there forcing his way on anybody. He was preaching, but he wasn\u2019t forcing his way on anybody. John Paul\u2019s life was based on three things: The birth, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Pure and simple. Now, if you don\u2019t understand that about him, you will fear him.<\/p>\n
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If you don\u2019t understand what it is that motivates religious people and why they believe the things they believe, if you just assign them labels like bigot or racist or whatever, you\u2019re not going to really understand who they are. Their business with Schiavo was not to have you do anything. They weren\u2019t trying to force anything on you. They were simply practicing their belief, the belief that life is precious and that particularly in this country, the state doesn\u2019t have the right to sentence innocent people to death. And then we got to hear such great stories that starvation and dehydration are actually euphoric. Well, we know that\u2019s BS. We know that the death of a woman was being sold to us. We also know that on the left, there are people who have their own version of the life issue, and they had to preserve that. Any acknowledgement in America that life is precious threatens the abortion crowd, and just like they\u2019re not going to allow one threat to the judiciary, they\u2019re not going to allow any threat to that.<\/p>\n
So Terri Schiavo became a political football in the sense that the left was interested in her death to protect one of their beliefs. The religious right or others on the right were interested in her life because they are interested in everybody\u2019s life, not because they wanted to tell you what to do or how you had to live, but were afraid of allowing this country to go down the path of saying, “Okay, we\u2019re going to allow a court, without anything on paper, to simply terminate the life of a woman.” We\u2019re going to allow the government. The court is a branch of government. The government can decide this now. That scared people.<\/p>\n
In terms of the pope or Terri Schiavo, if you don\u2019t understand who religious people are and how it is that they arrive at their beliefs — I would submit to you that people on the left are religious, too. Their God is just different. The left has a different God. There\u2019s a religious left in this country, and the religious left in this country hates and despises the God of Christianity and Catholicism and whatever else. They despise it because they fear it, because it\u2019s a threat, because that God has moral absolutes. That God has right and wrong, that God doesn\u2019t deal in nuance, that God doesn\u2019t deal in gray area, that God says, “This is right and that is wrong.” A lot of people on the left don\u2019t want to hear that. They want to define that for themselves, and they don\u2019t want to be judged and they don\u2019t want anybody casting judgment on them and forcing anything on them so there\u2019s fear. All this fear prohibits and gets in the way of people understanding who other people are. But, you know this business of imposing freedom on people or imposing views on people, it\u2019s not an imposition, freedom isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Life is not an imposition. I guess it is to some people on the left, but life is not an imposition, but some people look at it as though it is. Those people on the right were simply standing up for their beliefs just like you do on the judges, just like you do on abortion, just like you do on whatever else. Now, we\u2019re not afraid of people on the left. We want to defeat you, but we want to defeat you in the arena of ideas. We want to convince a majority of Americans to agree with us in the arena of ideas, not by a bunch of judges telling you that you\u2019re wrong about something and giving you nothing you can do about it in the arena of ideas. It\u2019s very simple. You just have to cast aside your fear and you\u2019ll be able to understand it plain as day. Religion is not something that\u2019s a fabric of our society. You only think it is because of your fear.<\/p>\n
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I want to go back to the previous caller. If you\u2019re just joining us, we had a caller, a liberal caller, he was very nice, but he felt like religion is just too much a part of everything in America. He feels like it\u2019s being forced on him and he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s right and so forth and so on. I had a long conversation with him about it. I know he represents the fear of a lot of people on the left. It\u2019s just fear. It\u2019s total fear, and I\u2019ll tell you here\u2019s the root of the fear. Let\u2019s just boil it down to two groups for the sake of it now. I know it\u2019s far more complicated and intricate than this, but for the sake of this discussion we\u2019ll make it simple. You\u2019ve got people who believe in God and you have people who don\u2019t. The people that don\u2019t believe in God are called humanists, they\u2019re secular. And they\u2019re the ones that want all the nativity scenes taken out of the town square and they want any reference to religion taken out of Christmas and all this even though it\u2019s a religious holiday, that\u2019s who they are. They don\u2019t believe in God. They don\u2019t believe in God for their own reasons but I think part of it is fear.<\/p>\n
So you have people who believe in God and people that don\u2019t. You have people who look at their pet cat and say, “God made that,” and they marvel. You look at humanists, secular humanists who look at their pet cat, and say, “mongrel.” They may love the cat, but they don\u2019t care where it came from. They\u2019re not at all intrigued where it came from, and they\u2019re not dazzled. They look at the heavens and they just see specks of white. They do not see what is obviously some force way beyond our comprehension that\u2019s able to assemble all this and put it together. They don\u2019t see it. They\u2019re threatened by it for whatever reason. Other people do. Other people live in constant wonderment at the creation of the universe and our little speck of it.<\/p>\n
Now, the people who have the fear, the people who are secular, who don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything divine in anything, and there\u2019s a reason for that, too. If there\u2019s no God it means who\u2019s supreme? Human beings. Human beings are supreme. Human beings set the rules, not some Bible, not some unseen force that says what\u2019s right and wrong. That\u2019s not for them, humans do this, humans decide, the humans decide. If they want to worship a tree as a God, they can do it without committing sin, and they won\u2019t be worried about it. So humans are the focal point of everything. That\u2019s where global warming comes from. We have the power to destroy the earth. We didn\u2019t create it. We couldn\u2019t create it. We couldn\u2019t cause global warming, but we couldn\u2019t stop global warming but to them we can cause it.<\/p>\n
All of the things that religious people invest in God, they invest in human beings, and the world orients and evolves around human beings. But to those of you on the left, you secular people, you\u2019re not compelled to practice any religion, nobody is enforcing that on you. The Schiavo case has nothing to do with anybody\u2019s right not to practice religion. The Schiavo case had no effect on anybody personally whatsoever. What Schiavo was about was Congress acting so the federal courts would review whether her life was being taken in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s due process clause. It was constitutional. Everything that happened on the right side in the Schiavo case happened as a result of the Constitution, pure and simple. Everything that happened on the left side of the Schiavo case happened because of the fear on the left, on the secular side, that the constitutional side would win.<\/p>\n
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Now, the discrimination. The liberals can call here and act all afraid or angry or put out that religious people or people of faith are taking over, but I think the discrimination is the other way around. If you and your community want to post the Ten Commandments in the public square, guess what? You can\u2019t. That\u2019s under attack. Tell me how the religious right is winning on this? If you in your community want school children to have the opportunity to say the Pledge of Allegiance, that\u2019s under attack if you put the word “God” in it. If you and your community want religious symbols displayed in the public square, that\u2019s under attack, and you probably are going to lose, till you fight back. If you want to look at who\u2019s causing the problem, who\u2019s causing discrimination, who\u2019s discrimination against whom, who\u2019s trying to force what on whoever? You know, by putting a religious symbol and nativity scene in a town square, you\u2019re not forcing that on anybody. You\u2019re not saying that they\u2019re compelled to go revere it. They\u2019re not even compelled to go look at it. But the people on the secular left look at it, they get scared.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t even want to see it. It\u2019s like showing Dracula the cross. They don\u2019t even want to see it, it scares them so much. And so just like political correctness is designed to stop people from saying what secular leftists don\u2019t want to hear, so are the attacks on religious people so that secular leftists don\u2019t have to see what they don\u2019t want to see because seeing what they don\u2019t want to see challenges their weak belief system. Hearing what they don\u2019t want to hear challenges their weakly structured intellectual belief system. So the fear is on their side. Nobody is compelled to do anything.<\/p>\n
Now, the Constitution — and again this is for those of you on the left — the Constitution prevents a government religion being imposed on you, as it was in England. It doesn\u2019t say that you\u2019re not to be offered the opportunity to be religious, and it doesn\u2019t say that you\u2019re not to be offended from religious symbols. There\u2019s no constitutional right that you won\u2019t be offended. It\u2019s not there. Now, give liberal judges enough time and it will be enshrined in the Constitution, that we all have a right not to be offended and wait till we start litigating that. But it\u2019s not there now. You do not have a right not to be offended from religious symbols or references to God. And so since you\u2019re not to be offended, you\u2019re not going to allow yourselves to be offended, you have to purge from public aspects of society all of these things that offend you, because you have appropriated to yourselves a right not to be offended. But if you don\u2019t want to practice religion then don\u2019t practice it.<\/p>\n
I guarantee all of you secularists and leftists out there, you would have hated America just as much prior to the time when the Supreme Court in 1947 ruled that there\u2019s a wall of separation between church and state. Do you know that\u2019s the first time that it was actually ruled? We think that it\u2019s in the Constitution, a wall of separation and it\u2019s not there. There\u2019s no such thing. This is another example of how the Constitution has been bastardized by liberalism. There\u2019s no such thing in the Constitution. It was in 1947. It\u2019s not that long ago, a Supreme Court decision that found a wall of separation between church and state. A bunch of libs. So, you could go back, you libs could go back prior to that, back to 1945, and you still would be confronted with religious people, they were all over the place, they\u2019ve been all over this country ever since it was founded. So even after the Supreme Court says, “There is a wall of separation between church and state,” you\u2019re still afraid, even though the Supreme Court\u2019s given you what you want, the so-called wall, but somehow the wall doesn\u2019t seem to be stopping the religious.<\/p>\n
So you\u2019ve got to jump over the wall and you\u2019ve got to stop them yourself when it comes to nativity scenes or whatever. I still maintain that all this is about a total lack of understanding and a fear that is felt, quivering in corners, folks, these liberals do when they start, you know, imagining the strength of faith. I mean what would you rather have faith in, you know, God or yourself? You need both, but, you know, the people that only have faith in themselves and their fellow human beings, imagine the dismal, miserable existence that is. If you only have faith in your fellow human beings and you look around the news every day what are our fellow human beings doing to each other? It\u2019s not a pretty sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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