For a writer who makes his living opining on national and cultural issues, David Limbaugh provides relatively little commentary in his new book Persecution. But Limbaugh doesn't need to add much to 300-plus pages of anecdotes that provide ample testimony to the purging of God from American culture.

And the book's first draft was twice as long, he told The Washington Times.

That such an attack against faith exists should be obvious to anyone following the news. Even the Pledge of Allegiance has come under fire because it dares to acknowledge the existence of God. The appeal of the Ninth Circuit's decision on the Pledge, which the Supreme Court has now agreed to hear, could prove to be a watershed ruling in the "church and state" debate. But it's certainly not the only area of concern.

Limbaugh pulls case after case from the courts, media, academia and business to demonstrate a widespread "intolerance" of the Christian faith. And he exposes the agenda of factions who are tireless in their attacks on the Christian worldview. "While tolerance is touted as the highest virtue in our popular culture," he writes, "Christians are often subjected to scorn and ridicule and denied their religious freedoms."

A great many of these battles are fought in the name of the First Amendment, which leaders on both the right and left use to lay claim to religion's role in 21st century America. But as Limbaugh shows, to condemn Christianity from the public square is to set aside American tradition stemming from the Mayflower to the Founding Fathers and beyond.

Today's postmodern culture does not live comfortably with the notion that U.S. history is submerged in biblical beliefs and teaching. As Limbaugh points out, "Postmodernists -- those who peddle the euphemisms of tolerance, diversity, openness, multiculturalism, and the rest -- view Christianity as inherently in conflict with their subjective assumptions about the world, including their notion that truth itself is just a tool to justify power."

And the efforts used to bring about this de-Christianizing of our culture reach into the ludicrous. The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is stretched to absurd proportions, with apparently no thought given to the letter or spirit of the Constitution's original designs.

Clearly, a purposeful rejection of God is in play, and public education exemplifies some of the greatest antagonism toward faith. In one instance mentioned by Limbaugh, children were prohibited from passing out candy canes in class, since their religious connotations could be an offense to classmates. "One has to wonder," Limbaugh suggests, "which is more offensive to the Constitution of the United States: a five-year-old passing out candy canes to his classmates or a teacher confiscating the candy canes because they are Christian."

And, he adds, "when you consider that the first common schools in this country were established for the purpose of Christian instruction, the current climate of hostility toward all things Christian in the public school environment is sobering."

That hostility extends well beyond school walls and has become a regular platform for columnists and reporters. What is perhaps most amazing (and relevant) about the stories that Limbaugh uses to make his case is that nearly all of them have taken place within the last decade -- and most in the last five years. It should be extremely troubling that so many pages could be this easily filled with examples of faith-based discrimination. Many of Limbaugh's inclusions you've already heard. Some you haven't -- and some may shock you.

Those who advocate a strict separation between church and state "object to the slightest scintilla of Christianity in the public sector (and the private sector)," Limbaugh says. "But they either overlook or actively encourage the state's endorsement of certain secular values they deem worthy, from the homosexual rights agenda to the precepts of radical feminism -- including a woman's unfettered right to terminate her pregnancy -- on to the promotion of anti-Christian obscenity masquerading as art."

To this point, however, "persecution" is likely too strong a word to describe Christianity's plight in the United States. Thank God. Living a life devoted to Jesus Christ is not a criminal act in America -- at least not yet. Unfortunately, we should be preparing now to fight for our faith, and David Limbaugh's Persecution plays the role of Paul Revere to show that the battle has arrived.