Last week, Joe Carter The Evangelical Outpost linked to an NRO article by Ramesh Ponnuru, Robert Reich's Religion Problem. Robert Reich is quoted as saying,
"The great conflict of the 21st century will not be between the West and terrorism. Terrorism is a tactic, not a belief. The true battle will be between modern civilization and anti-modernists; between those who believe in the primacy of the individual and those who believe that human beings owe their allegiance and identity to a higher authority; between those who give priority to life in this world and those who believe that human life is mere preparation for an existence beyond life; between those who believe in science, reason, and logic and those who believe that truth is revealed through Scripture and religious dogma. Terrorism will disrupt and destroy lives. But terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face."
This is similar to what many Unitarian Universalists and Humanists believe: that Christians are out to destroy America, to take us back to the dark ages, take away womens' rights. I've even heard some of them blame Christianity for the Holocaust, rhetoric very similar to that heard this year during the discussion of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
Since Robert Reich's views are so similar to those of the Unitarian Universalists, he was featured as a guest speaker at their recent General Assembly. Here's his presentation, Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America, which is actually a plug for his latest book by the same title. It's sort of interesting that he is so critical of Christians for promoting their values, and yet here he is promoting his own. Of course he is free to do so, and his ideas deserve consideration. But what he denies in his TAP piece is a place at the political table for people of faith. And that is an unconstitutional religious test, and not an American value at all.