Bestselling author Jack Cashill is back with his most timely book yet, “Scarlet Letters: The Ever-Increasing Intolerance of the Cult of Liberalism Exposed.”
And Cashill, a WND columnist, is pulling no punches over what he calls the unholy rise of progressive neo-puritanism.
As in old school puritanism, worshipers achieve a sense of moral worth simply by designating themselves among “the elect” – no good works required.
To validate that uncertain status, they heap abuse upon the sinner lest they be thought indifferent to the sin, he outlines.
Rather than simply cataloging the neo-puritan assaults on reason and liberty, “Scarlet Letters” illustrates how the progressive movement has come to mimic a religion in its structure but not at all in its spirit while profiling brave individuals like Clarence Thomas, Aayan Hirsi Ali, Camille Paglia and many lesser known truth tellers who have dared to take a stand against this inquisition.
Released by WND Books, “Scarlet Letters” shows in detail how an allegedly “liberal” movement has become what can only be described as bizarrely punitive and inquisitional.
American history is rich with movements, religious and quasi-religious, grounded in the belief that the end is nigh. Perhaps the most influential was the one inspired by William Miller, a New York State farmer who persuaded as many as one hundred thousand people the world would end in 1843. Although the apocalypse did not arrive for his followers in 1843 – or 1844, after a hasty reset – it did for a gun-toting “branch” of his sect on the dusty plains of Waco almost exactly 150 years later.
The Branch Davidians were hardly unique in hastening the end times with, admittedly, more than a little help from the Clinton Justice Department. Charles Manson had his “Helter Skelter.” Jim Jones had his “White Night.” And Marshall Applewhite had a spaceship waiting for him and his Nike-wearing acolytes behind the Hale-Bopp comet. Joseph Bottum described the impulse as “the search for immediate application of the Book of Revelation.” To deny a believer his apocalypse is to challenge his very identity. That gesture often comes at a price.
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