A post at The Friendly Atheist's.
My comment.
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The fight is often over small, symbolic things like "God" on the coins or in the platform of the Democratic Party.
But it's really over big things like those associated with the sexual revolution: the legality of divorce more or less at will, of homosexuality, of extra- or pre-marital sex, of porn and of open manifestations of sex in culture that are not that.
And like the survival of public, secular education instead of its replacement by voucher-enabled, publicly-funded but church-run, religion-dominated education.
Historically and even now, in America, our enemies are Christians, mostly but not only evangelical Protestants and Catholics.
But immigration patterns and global politics can change that so that sometimes, at the UN or in other international contexts, the most dangerous enemy is Islam.
It is important not to exaggerate the threat, but it is important not to shut our eyes out of deference to demands to be politically correct.
It is important not to confuse the ancient religious grudge of the Christians of the Occident against Islam to which the Islamophobe right in America and Europe so often so openly appeals with the realistic judgment that Islam today is the most violent and relentless enemy of secularism and secular values in the world.
Though not, of course, within the United States or, so far as I know, anywhere within the Western Hemisphere.
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