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Do you feel Christians are Discriminated against in America?

Do you feel Christians are Discriminated against in America?


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As I said before, there is no discrimination against Christians. There are only repercussions against those who are douchebags about their religion. They are a minority of religious people.

The problem is, a lot of these douchebags are used to having inordinate control and influence over society and are convinced they still deserve to. The fact that they aren't getting their way is being labeled as discrimination. The real word they're searching for is "stupidity".
 
I'm sure it is nothing to you if you don't want to even question why I posted the link.

When one asks for evidence, evidence should be provided to prove the point, not silly links that require questioning. Clearly you have no evidence, and are merely mucking all around the point to try to hide the fact that you have ZERO to back your claims. You kinda act like that capt whoever guy.
 
When one asks for evidence, evidence should be provided to prove the point, not silly links that require questioning. Clearly you have no evidence, and are merely mucking all around the point to try to hide the fact that you have ZERO to back your claims. You kinda act like that capt whoever guy.

I'm sorry. I thought that maybe it would be a nice change if people actually used their brains to think instead of just using talking points. :shrug: And if you actually read up to that post that you quoted you would see that evidence was given. Even if you don't accept it.
 
I'm sorry. I thought that maybe it would be a nice change if people actually used their brains to think instead of just using talking points.

That's a really poor deflection from the reality that you have yet to back your claims.
 
That's a really poor deflection from the reality that you have yet to back your claims.

He's desperately trying to make people forget that he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.
 
That's a really poor deflection from the reality that you have yet to back your claims.

He's desperately trying to make people forget that he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.

Conservative Christians are the only religious/cultural group whom it is permissible to mock publicly. Having no religion myself, I offer that as a simple observation.
 
Conservative Christians are the only religious/cultural group whom it is permissible to mock publicly. Having no religion myself, I offer that as a simple observation.

I'm an equal opportunity mocker. Anyone with a stupid belief gets it right between the eyes. Christians. Muslims. Jews. There are no limits, nor should there be.
 
I'm an equal opportunity mocker. Anyone with a stupid belief gets it right between the eyes. Christians. Muslims. Jews. There are no limits, nor should there be.

Your personal lack of manners does not affect the overall point.:mrgreen:
 
Conservative Christians are the only religious/cultural group whom it is permissible to mock publicly. Having no religion myself, I offer that as a simple observation.

For true Christians, the mocking means nothing.
 
Because Christians are being reeled in a bit from their over stepping the bounds of the Constitution they feel they are being "attacked"... :lol:

Can't make this **** up. :lol:
 
Your personal lack of manners does not affect the overall point.:mrgreen:

There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Political correctness is idiotic.
 
Christians are socially discriminated against, Try being a younger Christian in today's generation. Everyone likes to dog and attack people who actually live out their faith. Evangelicals are a mocked and socially persecuted minority.

If the others kids at school are even aware of what religion one of the other students is, the odds are that student is having some socialization problems.

Talking about God at school is in that vast category of things that parents advise kids to do socially that is in reality utterly terrible advice in the vicious world of school. Like all the one-liner zingers that parents are just positive will put an end to bullying that actually just get the poor kid bullied worse. Kids with better social skills figure that out right away. Kids who don't figure that out end up getting ridiculed whether they're Christian or not. The specific thing that kids use to ridicule them or that prompts the ridicule isn't actually significant. It could be anything. Kids in elementary school and junior high sense a lack of socialization and prey upon it and they do not have a hard time coming up with a topic for the ridicule. If the other kids were more morally and emotionally developed, they'd feel sorry for the kid, but as they are, they ridicule them. It happens just the same to kids who are not going around school talking about their religion.

One could argue the lawsuits where Christians were forced to cater to things against their beliefs (gay bakery/photo lawsuits) is also discrimination and intolerance.

No, one could not. Prohibiting discrimination against others is not intolerance towards people who feel like discriminating.
 
There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Political correctness is idiotic.


Long before the term "political correctness" had ever been uttered it was considered bad manners to disparage another's religion in public.
 
Long before the term "political correctness" had ever been uttered it was considered bad manners to disparage another's religion in public.

Actually, you just defined political correctness.
 
We'll have to disagree. I think political correctness is the antithesis of good manners.

"Political correctness" is a reworded term for the etiquette of the day.
 
Being made fun of is not persecution.

Look, here's the analogy. There's a few serious people in this world who wholeheartedly believe that Elvis is still alive. There's not millions of people who believe that. Nor are there hundreds of institutions, universities or churches dedicated to the continuation of the belief. No, as Harris once pointed out, whenever someone seriously represents their belief that Elvis is still alive; that person immediately pays a social price in barely contained laughter. When then that person continues that train of thought -- "It's a matter faith that Elvis is alive", "You cannot NOT prove Elvis is still alive," "I'm going to eat crackers and sign hymns about Elvis" -- that really demonstrates how asinine those beliefs are.

With persecution, we've not passed laws against the belief that Elvis is alive. We're not throwing Elvis-believers in jail or are actively depriving them of their freedoms. We're just demonstrating, through the act of laughter, that the belief of an ancient Bedouin man performing a bunch of unrealistic magic tricks before raising himself from the dead, which goes against everything a learned person in the 21st Century knows about biology, physics, chemistry, etc., is a stupid idea that no serious person ought believe. It deserves every snicker and chuckle it has going for it.

Hey now, I saw Elvis driving a car just outside of Myrtle Beach while I was in high school. He was driving a really old, crappy car, and passed us as we were going through a green light. This was about 19 years ago, so it is very possible that he moved by now.

:mrgreen:
 
Christians believe Christ rose again. Beyond that, they pick and choose all sorts of deviations and tenets to follow, some quite bizarre. That's why there are hundreds of separate tiny schisms cults and sectarian divides within it. I'm sure you are in no position to pass judgement on his faith or otherwise.

Hundreds? There are over 40K official brands (denominations) of Christianity in the world. That doesn't really even cover individual Christians' beliefs.
 
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