Last week Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), on the Senate Floor, had the chutzpah to attack people of faith as fanatics (theocrats), misrepresenting them as out to overturn the Constitution rather than merely exercise their God-given rights as red-blooded Americans:
"There is a group of people of deep faith. I respect that faith. I've been in enough inner city black churches, working class Catholic parishes, rural Methodist houses of worship and small Jewish synagogues to understand that faith is a gift. The trouble with this group, which I call the theocrats, is they want their faith to dictate what the government does. That, in a word, is un-American. That is exactly what the Founding Fathers put down their plows and took up muskets to fight."
Senator Schumer is a Jew, as are many of his liberal comrades. They give all Jews a bad name, but they could fix that by following their religion to the Jewish Homeland, doing something right for once. It's obvious they don't follow much of anything else in their religion.
David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall. With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out the Beyond Babylon blog.