Jacques Berlinerblau teaches at Georgetown's foreign service school and writes for the Washington Post's frequently unimpressive "On Faith" section. Today he offers up Manhattan socialite paranoia.
This brings us to the surging Barack Obama. Let me stress that his rhetoric on secularism is nowhere near as shrill as those of his GOP counterparts. I don't get the sense that atheists and others have much to fear from him.
Fear? From what? You can see the trembling and hear the moaning in the Ivy covered halls, in the salons of Manhattan with their Central Park views, in the soirées in Georgetown's perfectly manicured townhouses. Today, the evangelicals are going to slip an after-school Bible reading in some little town in the backwoods in the hills of West Virginia, and then tomorrow they will be storming our parties, lining us up against the wall and shooting us with all those guns they have. The wailing reaches a fever pitch.
What is it among academic types to make them say such silly things?
