Down The Rabbit Hole

How batshit crazy is David Gelernter? On the heels of his volkish glorification of Jewishness as a racial category (see the post below), Gelernter has a "think"-piece in last month's Commentary called...are you ready for this?..."Americanism and its Enemies."

Is it as bad as its title suggests? Worse:

That Americanism is a religion is widely agreed. G.K. Chesterton once called America "the nation with the soul of a church." But Americanism is not (contrary to the views of many people who use these terms loosely) a "secular" or a "civil" religion. No mere secular ideology, no mere philosophical belief, could possibly have inspired the intensities of hatred and devotion Americanism has. Americanism is in fact a Judeo-Christian religion; a millenarian religion; a biblical religion. Unlike England's "official" religion, embodied in the Anglican church, America's has been incorporated into all the Judeo-Christian religions in the nation.