On TV: Are Christians Being Persecuted?

[CJ]

If one challenges a Christian's view it's not my problem that they cry foul and persecution and then take on a pitiful, manipulative, passive aggressive attitude. The deistic/theistic memes have served their purpose and now need to be eradicated from human perception, the only purpose in retaining knowledge of them is to warn against them. Religion and all its works should be systematically discredited at every opportunity, and the people who support that world view should have that view challenged at every opportunity, if they see that as persecution that is to be expected and totally ignored.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

+1.

[Feck]

Oh my heart fucking bleeds Persecuted ....in Britain little cry babies they should all get ASBO's for that racket with the bells on Sunday mornings

And It's not Christmas lights they are for MID-WINTER Steal the festive season from Every belief system then fucking cry about Christmas not being all about the likkle baaaaby Jeeeeesus anymore .When the Pagans take back the festival with fire! I shall be out there handing out free lighters .

[Tigger]

Oh my heart fucking bleeds Persecuted ....in Britain little cry babies they should all get ASBO's for that racket with the bells on Sunday mornings

And It's not Christmas lights they are for MID-WINTER Steal the festive season from Every belief system then fucking cry about Christmas not being all about the likkle baaaaby Jeeeeesus anymore .When the Pagans take back the festival with fire! I shall be out there handing out free lighters .

Pretty much sums up the way I feel.

[Faithfree]

These pompous enrobed clergy wouldn’t know real persecution if they tripped over it. For the first time in their sheltered lives their unearned position of respect and power in western society is being challenged, not violently (as they themselves have dealt with any dissent for most of the last 2000 years), but simply by the rise of reason and common sense, and they are crying foul.

Those who live in glass houses, and all that .....

[CJ]

These pompous enrobed clergy wouldn’t know real persecution if they tripped over it. For the first time in their sheltered lives their unearned position of respect and power in western society is being challenged, not violently (as they themselves have dealt with any dissent for most of the last 2000 years), but simply by the rise of reason and common sense, and they are crying foul.

Those who live in glass houses, and all that .....

+1

[klr]

How ironic . Christians get an hour-long (heavily biased) program all to themselves on Easter Sunday just to "investigate" whether or not they're being persecuted.

I stuck it out to the end, but only because I was waiting for The Sky At Night, which followed it ...

[Tigger]

Is Nicky Campbell a tit?

[Epictetus]

These pompous enrobed clergy wouldn’t know real persecution if they tripped over it. For the first time in their sheltered lives their unearned position of respect and power in western society is being challenged, not violently (as they themselves have dealt with any dissent for most of the last 2000 years), but simply by the rise of reason and common sense, and they are crying foul.

Those who live in glass houses, and all that .....

[maiforpeace]

We get that whine from Christians here in the US too.

[Epictetus]

It would be interesting to round up adherents from Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (the trio of dominant monotheistic religions) and relocate them to a deserted island somewhere and let them have at each other (which, to judge by history, as well as by present day events, they're certain to do). I'd let them take all their religious paraphernalia with them: their burkas, crucifixes, yarmulkes, etc. Who knows, in the end, if they've not all killed each other (an unlikely forbearance), a new sort of hybrid religion might emerge. But I doubt that it will be an improvement.

[Tigger]

It would be interesting to round up all of the adherents from Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (the trio of dominant monotheistic religions) and relocate them to a deserted island somewhere.and let them have at each other (which, to judge by history, as well as by present day events, they're certain to do). I'd let them take all their religious paraphernalia with them: their burkas, crucifixes, yarmulkes, etc. Who knows, in the end, if they've not all killed each other (an unlikely forbearance), a new sort of hybrid religion might emerge. But I doubt that it will be an improvement.

[Epictetus]

It would be interesting to round up all of the adherents from Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (the trio of dominant monotheistic religions) and relocate them to a deserted island somewhere.and let them have at each other (which, to judge by history, as well as by present day events, they're certain to do). I'd let them take all their religious paraphernalia with them: their burkas, crucifixes, yarmulkes, etc. Who knows, in the end, if they've not all killed each other (an unlikely forbearance), a new sort of hybrid religion might emerge. But I doubt that it will be an improvement.

Ok, that's even better.