As World War IV rumbles onward into history, I am often asked two questions that perplex many people: Why do contemporary liberals perceive Christians and Christianity as a greater threat and a greater danger than Islam, a warlike religion that demands submission of the world to the will of Allah and the destruction of those who refuse to submit? Why do liberals sooner and more ferociously attack Christians then they do radical, extremist and militant Muslims?

 1.  The mindset of liberalism is dominated by deep-seated anger toward, and resentment of, authority and may be the result of childhood or adolescent issues involving parental authority, particularly that of a father. For feminist liberals it almost always involves issues that spring from a traumatic experience involving a father, a husband, a boyfriend or some other male figure. 

 2.  This anger causes liberals to draw inward and construct a narcissistic worldview that gives them a comfort zone in which to live with their own anger and resentment. Ultimately, this mindset manifests itself in an intense desire for the world to change so that the liberal feels more comfortable living in it.

 3.  Because their comfort zone is both fragile and very limited in scope and also because humans by nature have a tendency to gravitate toward those who share their worldview, liberals seek out the company of other liberals, who, in turn reinforce and concretize their mindset, resulting in a thought process that rejects out of hand any factual data that could disrupt or upset it.

4.  In turn, this close-minded narcissism results in a rigidly Manichean perception that divides reality into good or evil with no room for shades of gray. It imbues liberals with a hyper-sensitivity to criticism based on the assumption that the entire world either thinks as they do or should think as they do. Thus the caterwauling when someone like Ann Coulter gives them a dose of their own venom.  Unfortunately, their malignant narcissism and emotional solopsism  renders liberals among the most narrow-minded, parochial and bigoted people in our society. Unable as they are to engage in any meaningful self-analysis, they project these very attributes onto those whom they perceive to be "the enemy." Anyone who has engaged a true, hardcore liberal in conversation or debate will understand what I am saying.

5.  Conservatives in general believe in God and conservative Christians believe in salvation through Jesus Christ – both are male figures in what liberals perceive to be a patriarchal belief system, whether it is Judaism or Christianity. Because they have deep-seated issues involving authority figures – especially male authority figures – liberals, particularly the more fervent secular humanists, manifestly reject any kind of theology that involves salvation through divine intervention. Instead they believe in a form of salvation that manifests itself in an effort to change both human nature and the world so as to achieve Paradise (or Heaven, if you will) here on earth, thus assuaging their personal anger and guilt while fulfilling their desire for the world exist as they would have it.

6.  Conservatives in general and Christians in particular believe that human nature is fallen and corrupted (though not totally corrupt), that it is immutable, and that no power on earth can change it – only control it to one degree or another. Liberal secular humanists believe that human nature can be changed, but since there is no God, the only other power on earth that can do it is the State.

7. Liberalism is its own religion and the political process is the expression of that religious faith in the State as the Redeemer of the human race. Just as practicing Christians and Jews tend to view the world through the lens of their respective creeds, liberals view the world through the political lens. Political ideology governs the groceries they purchase, the vehicles they drive, what movies they see, what music they listen to and what people they consider friends or enemies. The fact that DailyKos and MoveOn liberals went ballistic in the 2006 election cycle because talkshow host Sean Hannity (a devout conservative Roman Catholic) and Joe Lieberman (an Orthodox Jew who nevertheless votes in favor of the liberal agenda 90% of the time) have a personal friendship marked by civility and sincere warmth – in spite of their ideological differences – is a textbook case.

 8.  Conservatives express a certain moral clarity on issues of right and wrong, good and evil, that liberals cannot or will not express because they reject the concept of an ultimate moral authority such as God. In their playbook, right and wrong, good and evil, are relative to each other. Moral authority derives not from God or some other supernatural entity but rather from the political process – ultimately, the will of the people who agree with liberals.

In the case of the Moonbat/Nutroots/DailyKos Lunatic Left, you need to remove several layers, like peeling an onion, to get to the core of what really motivates them.

Beneath the outer layer of seething, blind hatred for George Bush is an inner layer of hatred for the people, the culture and the religion that he represents.

Peel away that layer and you will uncover a hatred for America and all things traditionally American.

Go down another layer and you will find a deep-seated rejection of tradition or traditional values in favor of anything and everything that might upset or overturn those values.

Dig just a little deeper and you will see a bitter resentment of traditions and traditional values that springs from an animus toward the authority and patriarchy upon which these traditions and traditional values are based.

Continue to peel away and you reach the neurotically unbalanced core: an unhinged adolescent screaming, “You are not the boss of ME, Daddy! I can do what I want, whenever I want!!!”

It’s all very predictable, very pathological and very, very sad.

In light of the above the answer to the second question becomes clear:

Christians are geographically closer and culturally more familiar to liberals in our society than Jihadists and therefore make easier targets.

The pathology of liberals renders them essentially cowards and bullies who readily attack that which they perceive to be both weaker and inferior. As a group, Christians are infinitely more pacifistic than the Jihadists. At worst, when their most cherished beliefs are publicly mocked and ridiculed, they may protest or conduct a boycott, which they have in the past (The Last Temptation of Christ, The DaVinci Code, Andreas Serrano’s “PissChrist,” the dung-covered icon of the Blessed Virgin, etc.) Given both the frequency and ferocity of liberal assaults on Christianity one can only be amazed that Christians have not reacted with any more violence than angry op-eds and public placards.

On the other hand, publish one cartoon featuring Mohammed and you will face the wrath of the Jihadist community. Film a documentary of the brutalization of women at the hands of Islam and you will suffer the grisly fate of Theo Van Gogh. Discuss the criticism of Islam uttered by an ancient Byzantine emperor, as Pope Benedict XVI recently did, and missionary nuns in Africa will be slaughtered.

Liberals understand that Jihadists are violent and dangerous, but the pathology which clouds their higher faculties, coupled with an appalling ignorance of history and religion precludes them from accurately diagnosing the reason.

Liberals know that Jihadists are infinitely worse than the worst Fundamentalist Christians, but they don’t care because they are distracted by the endorphins released into their systems when they bash the enemy closest to them.