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To: jude24
Persecution in America - the Government doesn't put up a creche celebrating your holiday.

Persecution in Afghanistan - they kill you if you aren't their religion.

We trivialize the word "persection" when we make it refer to trivial matters like Christmas displays.

This bears repeating.

17 posted on 03/29/2006 1:20:55 PM PST by Chiapet (I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me)
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To: Chiapet

There is a very real worldwide movement to destroy Christianity in favor of secular humanism. These little things are just part of it.


22 posted on 03/29/2006 1:24:44 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Chiapet

You start with scorn.

Then you make it fair game to penalize one person's holy things while allowing other groups pretty much free reign.

Zoning laws start cracking down about allowing you places to worship.

Eminent domain starts taking your holy places.

Serious belief becomes a mental illness category.

Schools try to outlaw your use of religious symbols on your person or during your free time.

A comic burns your sacred writings as part of a comic routine.

It's socially acceptable to make costumes based on your most holy persons that are satirical or sexually explicit.

This is not how it ends. This is how it starts.


163 posted on 03/30/2006 8:52:46 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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