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Notice that to make secularism the approved religion is to establish a religion. The religion you have established has no candles, altars, or pulpits, but it remains the reigning worldview, the one that reserves to itself the authority to sit in judgment on all other religions. Thus, a secularist magistrate reserves the right to pronounce that Ahmed the Jihadist is not a “true Muslim.” Good to know, good to know.

Unbelief does not generate free societies. Out of all the explicitly atheistic societies that formed over the course of the last century, how many of them were open and free societies? Ah . . .

But not knowing Him does not just result in Hell later. It also means that when we refuse to acknowledge Him here and now, the end result is that we start building little prototypes of Hell in order to test-drive them.

Secular conservatism, and secular libertarianism are both impotent against the collectivist idol of the state. The state, by insisting on secularism, is making sure that there never arises a school of thought that maintains the state is a creature, accountable to God like all other creatures.