This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age. There is no one else to go after other than the United States and that has been the case now for almost two hundred years, once America's preeminence was sown by our great Founding Fathers.
He didn't have much success in the early days. Our foundation was very strong, in fact, is very strong. But over time, that great, acidic quality of time corrodes even the strongest foundations. And Satan has done so by attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.
He was successful. He attacks all of us and he attacks all of our institutions. The place where he was, in my mind, the most successful and first successful was in academia. He understood pride of smart people. He attacked them at their weakest, that they were, in fact, smarter than everybody else and could come up with something new and different. Pursue new truths, deny the existence of truth, play with it because they're smart. And so academia, a long time ago, fell.
And you say "what could be the impact of academia falling?" Well, I would have the argument that the other structures that I'm going to talk about here had root of their destruction because of academia. Because what academia does is educate the elites in our society, educates the leaders in our society, particularly at the college level. And they were the first to fall.
A partial transcript is here and the audio is here. It is interesting to note that Ave Maria was the same place that Reagan gave his famous Evil Empire speech.
I guess I just don't see what all the fuss is about, considering the audience and that he was not speaking as an elected official. I would think that since most Americans assume that since God exists, they would think that the Devil exists as well. Basically, isn't this a fairly normal belief among Christians (and not only just among Christians), no matter the denomination? And what about respecting one's religious liberty? Rush Limbaugh has a thought-provoking take here:
I mean who is the better Catholic example, Ted Kennedy or Rick Santorum? And who has been lionized by our media, and who is being castigated, laughed at, made fun of and destroyed, or the attempt to destroy being made? It would be Santorum. Aren't we constantly told that we must always respect people for their religious beliefs? Or does that only apply to Democrats and Muslims? And nobody else's religious beliefs, Christian beliefs, they're gonna come down hard on you if you express yours. Nobody ever attacks Obama for his religious beliefs when he trots 'em out for political purposes, like saying Jesus would agree with my tax increases on the rich.
And here is what a highly reputable source on the subject had to say:
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