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Religious News Verses — The Myth of Christian Persecution in America

Posted by God Discussion Reporter in In The News on 12 19th, 2009 | no responses

According to an article published at USA Today, Christian advertising routinely parodies popular secular advertising campaigns and logos. Few companies are willing to issue cease and desist letters or go after the religious companies for copyright infringement because they do not want to appear "anti-Christian." In other words, they are afraid of offending the Christians who steal from them.

Meanwhile, the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission insists that that there is an unfair "anti-Christian" bias in the country and is asking for help in identifying the ten "most egregious acts of anti-Christian defamation, discrimination and persecution in America" during the year 2009. A number of suggested egregious acts are identified in its survey, including gay people being allowed to be publicly seen at President Obama's inauguration events, the lawsuit by the Freedom from Religion Foundation about placing the word "God" on a plaque at the Visitor's Center in Washington D.C., the Homeland Security study on right wing extremism and the hate crimes legislation.

Arab Americans are much more prone to abuse than Christians. According to a recent study by the American Journal of Public Health that was analyzed in Inditop, 25% of Arab Americans have experienced personal or familial abuse because of race, ethnicity or religion since 9/11.

The Pew Forum published its report on Global Restrictions on Religion yesterday, finding that:

Among all regions, the Middle East-North Africa has the highest government and social restrictions on religion, while the Americas are the least restrictive region on both measures.

Judging from the comments to TPM's summary of the Family Research Council's "Prayercast" opposing health care legislation, "anti-Christian" sentiment in America is because of the theocratic wing of the religious right. Writes one commenter,

As a life long Christian, age 12 to 78, I must say that Christians objecting to health care for everyone is antithesis to what is commanded in the Bible, ie we are our brother's keepers. Amazing that anyone who has studied the sacrificial life of Christ would stoop to this sort of rhetoric that defies the commands of Christ. Not to be preachy, but this sort of hate rhetoric just cuts across any semblance of compassion and concern for others, Amazing!

Another adds,

"The event was an excellent display of the theocratic right — that is, for the literal institution of religious doctrines in public policy, and appeals to the Deity for active direction and intervention in politics."

My thoughts, too. The American Taliban. Why is religion even allowed into the political sphere? Where is the Seperation of Church and State? How was it even Constitutional for Bush to create the Faith Based Office within the White House? And why won't Obama, using the Constitution for what it was written for, abolish it? And are these "prayer warriors" paying taxes or are they still exempt after breaking the law and trying to force religon down everyone's throat?

I don't get it. I just do not get it.

This is one of the most impotant features of the Constitution. One of the main reasons people decided to come to America was to escape religous persecutions. I feel persecuted by their religions.

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