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RUSH: Lee in Leesburg, Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network. It\u2019s nice to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. WIXZ dittos. (laughs) I got a question, Rush. Since when in American history did it become taboo to speak about God or Christ in public? I was born in the mid-sixties, born and raised in McKeesport, Pennsylvania —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and ever since I was a kid it has always been, ‘Don\u2019t mention anything like that,\u2019 even though I\u2019m surrounded by churches, everybody\u2019s going to church on Sunday, we all know where we\u2019re going. But to speak outside of that context was always like you were stepping on eggs or something to speak about it. What…? When did that start, and why?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it depends on what part of the country you\u2019re in. For example, in California you have never been permitted to. (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was thinking about this. I looked at your call up there, and I\u2019m thinking back. I was born 1951 and all through the sixties — and I\u2019m in a small town in the Midwest, but — it was never taboo. We had a nativity scene; Christmas decorations went up. Nobody — nobody — ever tried to stop anybody from any public display of the Christmas holiday or talking about God. My best guess, without doing original research on this, would be the sixties. I think most of the maladies that we\u2019re undergoing today started with the counterculture \u201960s. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair sued and the Supreme Court ruled in her favor. She was an atheist. That was 1964. At least as far as the schools were concerned, that\u2019s where it began. You could not mention God-d in the schools because Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair had victory at the Supreme Court of the United States. (interruption) Yeah. Eisenhower added ‘under God\u2019 to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, and Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair said, ‘Take it outta there! You can\u2019t put God in there, not in the public schools!\u2019 There it began. And then the assault on nativity scenes or any public display of Christianity came under assault, and it was all part of something that continues to this day, and that is simply an attack on the traditions and institutions that built this country. <\/p>\n

Now, as I said, there have always been people in this country who don\u2019t like it. There have always been atheists. There have always been people upset that God was mentioned, but they shut up about it. You know, they stayed in their little hovels and they complained and moaned to themselves. They felt like victims to themselves. Then suddenly Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair comes along and all these minorities of people finally decided, ‘You know what? There are victories in the politics of grievance here and we can get what we want. We can change this society so we don\u2019t have to be faced with this stuff that repulses us,\u2019 and it just grew and grew and grew — and of course fairness and not wanting to offend anybody and everything, you might say, that was held sacred by people of the country was under assault. <\/p>\n

People just said, ‘You know, it\u2019s easier. Okay, you don\u2019t want God in the school? Fine. I\u2019ll go to the church.\u2019 People didn\u2019t want the confrontation. The people that were opposing all of this were blowing up buildings and so forth as they opposed the Vietnam War. You know, they were burning down buildings and firebombing cars in Chicago and this kind of thing. It is an interesting historical trace. Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair… Some of you may not know this. Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair was the chief speechwriter for Larry Flynt\u2019s 1984 presidential campaign. She was the first guest on the Phil Donahue show. So you can see that all of this stuff has its roots with Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair and the \u201960s, and now there\u2019s no culture anymore. All we have is counterculture, the counterculture. We get Obamaites (former Obamaites now) praising Mao Tse-tung at the National Cathedral. <\/p>\n

What was her name? Anita Dunn did that. So there is no distinct American culture. That\u2019s what\u2019s in hiding. The distinct American culture, that\u2019s what takes place behind closed doors so nobody\u2019s offended. The counterculture today is what dominates — especially in pop culture, the entertainment community, movies, books, Hollywood stories and so forth. So that\u2019s that, the best I can answer the question. Glad you called out there, Lee — and, folks, we have to run. Like you, many of us have to travel through the woods. Some stop there, some keep going, to get to grandmother\u2019s house. But I want to thank all of you again for always being here. Even those of you who claim you\u2019re not, we know you are. We thank you. This couldn\u2019t be done without you. You are more valuable to all of us here at the EIB Network than we could ever be to you, and we thank you immensely for it, more than we\u2019ll ever be able to in a tangible way.<\/p>\n

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By the way, Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair founded an atheist radio program in which she criticized religion and theism and a TV show she hosted. American Atheist Forum was on more than 140 cable TV systems. This was under the Fairness Doctrine, by the way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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