Conservative Christians Worried About

Oh, please....these folks are about as sympathetic as a school of parahnas!

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/182005h.asp

...One pro-family leader is worried that American Christians could be facing a new form of inquisition. Gary Bauer of the Campaign for Working Families senses that anti-Christian feelings are on the rise among some segments of America. He says he is concerned that born-again believers could be facing tough days ahead. "I'm concerned about the possibility of real persecution in the United States toward conservative Christians," Bauer states. "Harper's Magazine this week has a cover story entitled 'The Religious Right's War on America.' So there's a lot of rhetoric out there, very hateful rhetoric, aimed at traditional Christian conservatives -- and that can be very dangerous." Many Christian leaders have expressed their worry over the increase in "hate speech" aimed at Christians and the lack of public uproar over it.

Updated On: 5/19/05 at 11:39 AM

It's funny that they're the perpetrators of hate speech and rhetoric. I see NOTHING in the news these days attacking Christians or Christianity; in fact, it's just the opposite. Evne programming (like that horrible Bill Pullman movie) is geared towards them.

Let's just pick one. Bush's faith is as phoney-baloney as his ranch swagger. His ALLEGED attendance at regular bible study class was disproven when asked what verse he had studied that morning. He just glazed over like a fella who had skipped school and thought he was going to get credit anyway.

It's cute, however, that you've bought that bill of goods they've sold you.

Now, let me begin your reply for you, goth:

"But, but, buh buh buh CLINTON..."

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Those Christians who hold those destructive veiws on those matters have been attacked. They have not been universally attacked for being Christian, but for holding and trying to force upon others their own particular idea of what Christianity is. Just because a Christian does something and tries to hold up their faith as the rational it does not mean their action is justified or that the atack of that view is of the persons faith.

Yes some people are tired of religion in general and will attack all religious people, but this victimization crying by the group that is gaining and holding the most power and in the process currupting Christianity and the American government, is ludicrus.

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Face it, Jesus Christ was a screaming liberal and if hE were to come back today and see these "conservative Christians" perverting his message, he'd get out his whip/microphone and sing, "My temple should be, a house of LOVE. But you have made iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, a den of rich people abusing the poor, GET OUT! GET OUT!"

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Updated On: 5/19/05 at 12:14 PM

The Gospel According to Saint Mathew and the
Gospel of Luke, Gotham read the things.

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1. You certainly picked the wrong queen to accuse of spending all day listening to showtunes, big boy. I'm the one who URGES the young people around here to listen to some rock and roll.

2. Believe me, I know what the Bible says Jesus preached against, and they were power, prestige, and posessions. The big 3. ALL completely embraced by the so-called followers of his who are currently in power.

And if God was SO upset about homosexuality, as Jon Stewart asked, why didn't it even make the Top Ten?

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Well, if I were a conservative Christian I would be worried too, because many of the rest of us are, to borrow a phrase from Network, mad as he!! and not gonna take it anymore.

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Absolutely the ones who have the power are those who Jesus calls immoral, because they have abandoned God in search of material possesion. In order to follow Jesus, he asks for divisions to be set aside, be no longer connected to the love of money and power, but instead to be concerned for the whole of humanity and not to try to be good for some mythic future time, but to try to bring the kingdom of God to earth. To do this you "love God with all your heart and body and soul and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself."
Of course I guess the problem lies there, some conservatives are very self-loathing so it permeates into the treatment of the rest of us.

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It IS wonderfully entertaining watching the group that has spent generation after generation LITERALLY destroying the lives of anyone they disagreed with or who didn't believe in their Magic Sky Person, suddenly being thrown into convulsions because suddenly a lot of Americans are saying not nice things about them. Suddenly the group that whined that 'liberals' victimized themselves over every little thing are elevating the art of crying a freaking river to levels no minority previous could ever have imagined -- all while never even remotely having your freedoms or rights threatened or lessened at all.

So, I guess to quote yourself, Gotham, 'Stop whining.'

"So, I guess to quote yourself, Gotham, 'Stop whining.'"

Obviously reading comprehension is not someone's forte. I was just echoing the sentiment posted by PalJoey.

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Very good points again Popa and Namo, Bwaysinger you are too much.

Of course it is not sudden at all, I still remember the cries of huge persecution in areas of African and Asia, that happened when one or two missionaries dissapeared, as they systematically destroyed millions. Hypocrisy is also nothing new, but is another of those huge sins Jesus had time to talk about while forgetting all about the gay sex.

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It would probably help if more of them read a bible they could understand, I knew some people who would brag about reading whole books of the King James Bible in one night. Unless you are Shakespeare if you did that you learned very little.

Hearsay spread by a little frightened man named Paul, who contrary to popular belief is not Jesus.

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