Couple of weeks ago I remarked in a column that the two most widespread

forms of hate* in these United States are (1) hatred of white people by

nonwhites, and (2) hatred of religious people by the irreligious. The

Public Interest article Stanley Kurtz has brought to our attention to

certainly confirms my (2). The article is brilliant, and raises all sorts

of interesting questions. E.g. will black “church ladies” go on voting

solidly Democrat (as they apparently do) if it dawns on them that the

Democrats are, in fact, the party of irreligion? (I think I could make a

case for the answer probably being “yes.”) Some of these observations,

though, are not new. It is around 20 years since Peter Berger, commenting

on the then-emerging picture of America as an irreligious elite governing a

religious populace, encapsulated the phenomenon as: “Swedes ruling over

Indians.”

* As opposed to “hate,” as in “disapproving of homosexual marriage,” or

“seeing nothing wrong with racial profiling.”