Posted on 06/29/2016 10:23:26 AM PDT by Heartlander
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Traditional American Christians have long been on the losing end of culture-war contests—on school prayer, same-sex marriage and other issues. But recent events, including the Supreme Court decision overruling Texas’ restrictions on abortion clinics and the mandate that employers provide access to contraception, have added to the sense that religious expression is under attack.
[Snip]Some of the faithful have paid unexpected prices for their beliefs lately: the teacher in New Jersey suspended for giving a student a Bible; the football coach in Washington placed on leave for saying a prayer on the field at the end of a game; the fire chief in Atlanta fired for self-publishing a book defending Christian moral teaching; the Marine court-martialed for pasting a Bible verse above her desk; and other examples of the new intolerance. Anti-Christian activists hurl smears like “bigot” and “hater” at Americans who hold traditional beliefs about marriage and accuse anti-abortion Christians of waging a supposed “war on women.”
Some Christian institutions face pressure to conform to secularist ideology—or else. Flagship evangelical schools like Gordon College in Massachusetts and Kings College in New York have had their accreditation questioned. Some secularists argue that Christian schools don’t deserve accreditation, period. Activists have targeted home-schooling for being a Christian thing; atheist Richard Dawkins and others have even called it tantamount to child abuse. Student groups like InterVarsity have been kicked off campuses. Christian charities, including adoption agencies, Catholic hospitals and crisis pregnancy centers have become objects of attack.
[Snip]...an insidious intolerance for religion that has no place in a country founded on religious freedom.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
The headline conflates legal culture and politics with “American culture.”
The author has minor celebrity status for persistently noticing "things" about "American culture." Even published a book recently, "It's Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies." TIME buys articles from her occasionally. I'd say the piece has a "Guest OpEd" sort of status, and does not reflect the view of the publication.
The American people have turned against the Lord Jesus Christ; they don’t know that He works every time He is tried.
Christians have too long bought into the lies that liberal (atheist) clergy have promoted that we’re supposed to stay out of politics and that our faith is supposed to stop at the door of the church.
I believe we are at that time when either we stop listening to this dreck and start fighting back or else we’re all going to be marched off to the re-education (death) camps the left has been planning for us.
I agree.
It actually is probably a form of plausible deniability.
Christians turn the other cheek rather than fight for their beliefs. Except for the Founding Fathers. They stood and fought for liberty and the freedom, of, and for, religion.
bkmk
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