The anger in here is starting to boil water. I think people should chill here.
This topic is about being Picked On? Now if by Picked on we mean Jokes, then I see no problem. If you can't take a joke then I just feel sorry for you. On the other hand say if a comedian makes a joke about Christians, but then has a joke directed at him and get's upset, I feel just as sorry for that person. Humor is a two way street. It becomes a problem when it only goes one way.
I haven't noticed any Christian explicitly mention about being persecuted on this board, but if anyone does I would like to point to two other posters (Tannenisis & ) who have described horrible things done to them and members of their faith. I'm pretty sure most christians never recieve treatment like this, if not even for centuries.
michel said:
Well, you have a weird load of Christians; here every disaster is blamed on happenstance. Sure Christians will behave just like everyone else, in that there will be hypocrites; that is to be expected - we are all just human.
This stricks a certain point. While I may make a Joke about Christianity, I in general am not angry at most Christians. I am angry though at attitudes and beliefs reflected in some Evangelical Churches and other what I would call fundamentalist churches found in America & Australia. Both nations have been breeding grounds for religious extremism of Christian brand (in name) because they're severed from the contact of their roots in Europe. The ideology of "US vs. Them" and isolationism has fused itself to a number of religious movements in this nation and a majority of them being of Christian roots because Christianity is the majority faith in this nation. Most recently you can see it in a number of Evangelical movements and such figures as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Now there are many christians of the Evangelical branch that don't buy everything these people say (thank God), but there are a good number whom do and if you look at recent American politics you can see that.
Sunstone said:
Those are some rather scary quotes you've come up with, s2a. I don't think they represent the sentiments of the majority of Christians in this country, however.
They don't, but you know how American politics works. Not everyone votes. This past Presidential election had a recent high of somewhere in the 60% range. A lot of the ideological right wing leaders of certain churches and denominations get their followers well organized to vote to what they say.
This alone points out some of the crazy actions in this country-
http://christianexodus.org/ For me.... this website and a lot of what the Evangelical/Fundamentalist leaders say reminds me of the Nazis.
This whole "US vs. Them", Isolationism and Pro-End of the World sentiment has got to go if anyone care's about humanity. If any actually cares for Peace, which apparently far too many people forget was something that I at least remember seemed to be a word associated with Jesus.