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 ...
True and now they are going to encounter the Crusader.
What do you think of this Article Megan? :(
Thanks, Obama.
Do you really think thats much of a restraint anymore? I think we’re almost to the point where our govt is willing to ignore its contract with us and use force (as much as ncessary) to do whatever it wants.
I find some atheists more dangerous than ever.
If they hated Him, they’ll hate us?
Of course we should make sure that it really is Him, and not a proud religiosity, we are reflecting. All proud religiosities are, or potentially are, at war. That’s nothing new, that’s as old as Cain and Abel.
No problem, they just define it away at the USSC and then sleep like babies.
I am a Christian and do not plan to change even if it cost me my life. Obama’s Minister wished for God to Damn American it has happened Watch and see.
Rather amazing that Time Magazine is acknowledging this.
Maybe they are just announcing it.
I think our religion actually got dumbed down when we became used to it becoming widely civically accepted. We were living a cultural religion that budged very reluctantly, if at all, for actual dictums of the Savior.
America damned itself by deeming it fit to evade the love of the Lord. The “Wrong” Reverend didn’t have to do anything. He was more like standing around gloating.
Not a bad article - especially for time - but they ended it on such a cowardly sour note that makes it a pointless exercise.
ping to read later. This is Time???
The Time writer, Eberstadt, is a hater of Christians and labels them losers—a nasty trick but one expected of today’s reporters that call themselves journalists. The Christians that have not bowed to the gestapo of PC are in fact winners. The promoters of Sodom And Gom, and the criminals killing our Constitution are the losers, as is the crumbling old media empire.
John 15:18 applies.
To quote Doc Holliday, "Say when". d;^)
Saying that Biblical Christians (redundant) are on the losing end is to assume culture has the final word.
Wrong.
Only one can and will say “It is finished,” and it won’t be the peddlers of atheism, homosexuality, or heresy.
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