The Persecution of Christians
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:19 amCan we talk about what it isn't, please?
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to abide by the First Amendment.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to haul that cross off the schoolroom wall.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to refrain from building a twenty foot high granite monument to the ten commandments on the courthouse lawn.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to stop trying to force others to adopt your beliefs and morality by force of law.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to back the fuck off with the proselytizing, because you're in my personal space.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to recognize that secularism and state neutrality regarding religion is not the same as government denunciation of Christianity and advocacy of atheism.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to stop claiming your ideas are immune from criticism and that you have the right not to be offended.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to let others hold whatever beliefs they want, even if that means they don't love Jesus.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to stop claiming all non-Christians are evil and deserve to be tortured in a pit of fire forever.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to realize that when people disagree with you, you aren't being disrespected, insulted, or otherwise told to be silent.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to realize that when you claim a person disagreeing with you is persecuting you, you are exercising your religious privilege to maintain dominance over a minority and to silence them.
This post brought to you by a profoundly irritating religious conversation elsewhere on the internet, and by Christian/theistic privilege. Thank you.
Edit: I'd also like to add that if you don't see the incongruity is first saying "Every religious group is protected by political correctness - except for Christianity, which is the only religion it is acceptable to insult" and then saying "Atheists are the most hateful people in the world. If you spend so much time hating god, you must believe in him" and your comment is then followed by about thirty comments by others expressing agreement with you... well. Your blindness to your own privilege and your martyr complex are pretty full-bore, aren't they?
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to abide by the First Amendment.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to haul that cross off the schoolroom wall.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to refrain from building a twenty foot high granite monument to the ten commandments on the courthouse lawn.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to stop trying to force others to adopt your beliefs and morality by force of law.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to back the fuck off with the proselytizing, because you're in my personal space.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to recognize that secularism and state neutrality regarding religion is not the same as government denunciation of Christianity and advocacy of atheism.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to stop claiming your ideas are immune from criticism and that you have the right not to be offended.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to let others hold whatever beliefs they want, even if that means they don't love Jesus.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to stop claiming all non-Christians are evil and deserve to be tortured in a pit of fire forever.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to realize that when people disagree with you, you aren't being disrespected, insulted, or otherwise told to be silent.
It isn't persecution when you're told you need to realize that when you claim a person disagreeing with you is persecuting you, you are exercising your religious privilege to maintain dominance over a minority and to silence them.
This post brought to you by a profoundly irritating religious conversation elsewhere on the internet, and by Christian/theistic privilege. Thank you.
Edit: I'd also like to add that if you don't see the incongruity is first saying "Every religious group is protected by political correctness - except for Christianity, which is the only religion it is acceptable to insult" and then saying "Atheists are the most hateful people in the world. If you spend so much time hating god, you must believe in him" and your comment is then followed by about thirty comments by others expressing agreement with you... well. Your blindness to your own privilege and your martyr complex are pretty full-bore, aren't they?
