AlAyeti wrote:The blood of believers flows as we write all over the world and their only crime is peaceful acceptance of Jesus Christ.
Yes, I am certainly aware there are places where there is very real and brutal persecution of Christians; I am not denying this.
I am only saying that it is a mischaracterization to describe what occurs in this country as any kind of persecution or oppression.
Liberal-Progressives i.e., Democrats voting for Kerry, are a real threat to children. Christians above all else think about children as the number one most valuable person in the overall scheme of things.
It might be interesting to start another thread on which party is more of a threat or more of a benefit to children. Certainly many have made the case that the Republican's policies are bad for children and families, particularly poor children. We all have different perspectives on what constitutes a 'threat.' I don't particularly apply that word to a lot of what I see. I do think that we can and should weigh the relative merits of different policies. As one example, I think the refusal of Republican's to address the health care situation in this country is poor policy and is demonstrably bad for the poor in our society.
In America children can be handed condoms with no parental notification but if a Bible were even offered to these same children the ACLU Gestapo known as Compliance Coordinators would act like the jack-booted thugs that they are.
Halloween is a major theme day in every school in America while "Christmas" is a word of intolerance.
Persecutions are a fact.
As I said, these are NOT persecutions, not by any stretch of the imagination. The ACLU as jack-booted thugs? Come on. That's a completely ridiculous comparison.
Yes, the ACLU (like a lot of single-issue organizations) does tend to take the extreme end of a position. I suppose single-issue groups do this because they feel they have to pull as hard as they can in their particular direction to get some incremental movement that way. I personally think the ultimate effect is not good, and would prefer groups take reasonable approaches to problems.
THat being said, the ACLU utilizes the same legal system we all have access to. They argue their cases on principle and legal precedent, and they usually have at least some grounds for the positions they take.
Who has ever said that Christmas is a word of intolerance? The legal cases I am aware of involve the contention that Christmas events or displays
as part of an officially government sponsored event or in a government facility violate the Establishment Clause of the constitution. How is this persecution of a private citizens ability to worship as they see fit? It isn't.
Many Christians feel that our government SHOULD endorse Christianity and Christian beliefs. In my view, this is against the constitution. People who oppose giving official government sanction to a religious belief are NOT persecuting those of that belief. They are simply defending the constitution, as they see it, and trying to preserve their rights not to be subject to religious authorities that they do not subscribe to.
To say this is persecution would be like saying I am persecuting my neighbor by calling the cops because he is having a wild all night party with the music turned all the way up and people using my back yard as a garbage dump.