ASCENDENCY OF THE FUNDAMENTALIST SECULAR STATE

Increasingly, the abolishment of the soft establishment of Christianity, as this existed in the United States in the first half of the 20 th century, with prayer in public schools and the presence of Christian symbols in public spaces (the Ten Commandments in courtrooms), has been replaced by the hard establishment of a secular moral and political vision. This essay explores this remarkable social transformation. It argues that there has been a failure to recognize that current secular states in the West are not religiously or morally neutral; instead, there exists a salient animus against belief in God. The essay concludes by exploring the secular state‟s major cultural drive against Christendom as that religion which may not be allowed to reassert itself again. The goal is the establishment of the fundamentalist secular state.