Originally Posted by SamHouston
hehe my last post was all j/k but really, I've never heard a Christian joke or read anything resembling a heartfelt desire to persecute Christians in any meaningful way. I'd bet it happens elsewhere but by and large you're free to believe what you want in North America right? You can believe in everything or nothing and all the things in between, a spiritual commitment comes with challenges regardless of its form. The real challenges are within, not snarky comments on the internet. Outside the internet Christians fare pretty damn well in North America.
I do agree that all this talk about the persucted Christian is pretty funny. They only make up the majority of our country and, oh yeah, run it.
I think what is being talked about here is sort of the extreme secular/liberal view that Christians and religious people are stupid and backwards and hateful. Shows like Bill Mahr and The Daily Show (two shows of which I am a big fan, in the interest of full disclosure) sort of propagate this view. In general, I don't really care and think it's mostly done in jest. And like I said before, this assessment generally refers to a small minority of religious people.
I'm not religious at all. I tend to have a prejudicial view of the Christian Right and zealots of any stripe who perverse religious doctrines. I think religion can be fine, when not taken to the extreme. I personally don't need the bible or jesus to tell me how to treat other people or live my life, but whatever. It's when people twist the bible or take it too literally and use it as justification for hatred (homesexuality is an abomination) or subjegation or as a realistic alternative to science that I have a problem with it. And, again, I feel that those who tend to do that are those in the lime light, a small and vocal minority.