Posted on 03/29/2006 1:04:29 PM PST by Crackingham
"Not occupying the place of privilege does not equal persecution."
How about having your property taken away in a lawsuit because you won't rent to a same sex couple?
How about being imprisoned for preaching that homosexuality is a sin?
How about being found guilty of child abuse for rasing your children as Christians?
How about loosing your job because you won't perform an abortion?
How about being thrown in jail for protesting that your gradeschoolers a being taught about homosexual sex?
All these things are either happening right now, or are not too far off.
Thank you.
The war against Christians is one of the things that is at the heart of Christianity (and not just Christianity). It must be kept in mind that G-d has an opponent. This opponent has, since the beginning of the human race, worked tirelessly to undermine faith, degrade morals and destroy those who follow G-d's law. The war waged is on all fronts: military, political, economic, social, moral. Propaganda is an essential (indeed it is THE essential) part of this. Convince a person there is no G-d, no Christ, no afterlife, no evil and you have effectively desroyed them - not in the immediate present but for all time.
In a way those facing physical persecution have it easier than those facing softer forms of opposition. Their choice is stark and obvious. The choice of those living in relative physical safety and comfort is much murkier and easily confused and confounded. In both cases it is NOT the death of the body or the loss of physical freedom that is the real menace. It is the destruction of one's true self that is the real threat. The stakes in this conflict are eternal salvation or damnation. These are unpopular words in this time (in just about every time really) but they are true.
If you think there is no war on Christians being waged you are simply being foolish. The war is real and lasting and the peril is just is dire here as it is in Afghanistan or Nigeria or the Sudan or any other hell hole.
"...the Rev. Robert Franklin, a minister in the Church of God in Christ and professor of social ethics at Emory University."
Sounds like the "reverend" Barry Lynn, formerly of the ACLU, who as a "reverend" feels that his job is the far more important work of maintaining the famous, and totally absent from the Constitution, "Separation of Church and State".
These are examples of liberal christians;the church and religion are nothing more than tools for social engineering.
The Nazis started with small things before they incinerated Jews.
"How about having your property taken away in a lawsuit because you won't rent to a same sex couple?
How about being imprisoned for preaching that homosexuality is a sin?
How about being found guilty of child abuse for rasing your children as Christians?
How about loosing your job because you won't perform an abortion?
How about being thrown in jail for protesting that your gradeschoolers a being taught about homosexual sex?
"
"the attack on fair treatment of Intelligent Design is clear evidence of this."
But, but, but I thought ID doesn't have anything to do with Christinaity?
Yes. You are right. you found out our agenda! We won't stop until all Christians are herded into traincars, starved and gassed.
Right. Evidence please.
What really scares me is the complete lack of Christian churches in the U.S. and the fact that any time people try to attend a Christian worship service, they're beaten or thrown in jail. And the other day when my son said a silent prayer before an exam at school they expelled him for the rest of the year. It was awful.
The judges responded to her EXCELLENT performance with confounded/confused and EXTREMELY PREJUDICED and UNBALANCED responses compared to what they were handing out.
Dear God I hope that is sarcasm.
When and if it comes down, the liberal "Christians" will side with those that persecute the real Christians.
What are you talking about? 'liberal' Christians? 'real' Christians?
Are you serious? You don't know the difference between "liberal" Christian and "conservative" Christian?
liberal Christians and conservative Christians are ALL Christians.
Limbaugh has a point: there are anti-Christian tendencies - rigid school bureaucrats, militant atheists and an often profane and irreligious popular culture - in American society. But there are plenty of pro-Christian tendencies too, such that Limbaugh's persecution complex seems overblown.
Wait 'till they declare war on libertarians!
The following link might be better:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603726/posts
A relevant part is the following:
Much of the reporting on the issue has featured stories of children who might be denied a home if gay applicants are rejected. But that is focusing on a pebble and not noticing the boulder nearby. Boston's Catholic Charities accounts for 31 percent of the state's special-needs adoptions, those children abused, neglected, disturbed or handicapped.
More important, the state is in effect using its licensing power to bring the church to heel -- no gay adoption, no license to conduct adoptions in Massachusetts. Acting on traditional Catholic social principles -- that one father and one mother are best for children -- is defined as bias
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