It's only prayers, Bibles, and references to a supreme being which offend the sensibilities of secularist puritans. Among the pieces concerning morality and sexuality is Feder's response to a reader's complaint. The unhappy critic raised the never-ending gripe about not imposing one's morality on others and the need for more tolerance. Never mind that today's real intolerance comes from the political Left. Jews are not spared Feder's lash.
Modern theologians worry about such matters.
Rigidity and judgment are what Feder calls the ultimate evils to such liberal divines. Having no absolutes themselves, they have a pathological fear of certainty. Feder recalls a case involving AIDS instruction in a Massachusetts community, in which students as young as age 11 were given booklets containing graphic explanations of sex acts. The media, as the author shows with numerous examples, are permitted to offend and insult the Christian community with little tear of reprisal. In a column from 1988, Feder notes the anger Christians expressed over the sacrilegious film The Last Temptation of Christ .