North Carolina Tries to Establish State-Sponsored Religion

Seth is now persecuting Christians by making a generalization about Christians always feeling persecuted.

Really though, some branches of Christianity do constantly paint themselves as victims of one thing or another (happy holidays and gay marriage both being considered attacks on religious freedom), but that certainly doesn't mean that all Christians do so or that it's a defining trait of Christianity.

MacBrave wrote:
Seth wrote:

Christians always have and always will feel persecuted by someone or something.

Funny that I've never felt that way. I guess I'm not Christian enough.

Apparently not. The local church near my house (complete with a million little crosses for fetuses like every season) mixed that message with a new one of "Protect Religious Freedom" as if that was somehow under threat because we weren't living all living as Christians with Bible Law as the law of the land... something that I was seeing more and more of since the last election cycle really ramped up... and hasn't really petered out yet.

MacBrave wrote:
Seth wrote:

Christians always have and always will feel persecuted by someone or something.

Funny that I've never felt that way. I guess I'm not Christian enough.

To paraphrase Bill Maher, please be a follower of Christ and not a Christian.

Hey, I'm Catholic, I'm always being persecuted. Just earlier today I learned they killed a bill in North Carolina that protects my right to a state religion!

At least you guys have experience in the role, Seth. Most Protestant sects are amateurs in that environment.

So what is this about a shooting at a conservative Christian lobby in DC? I do want to say, on the bright side, Christians largely have kept the message consistent for close to 1700 years. An attack on Christianity is anyone believing anything else. And the Church should be above the laws of man. That kind of stick-to-it-iveness is rare.

Yeah, some nutbar showed up at the Family Research Council (I think it was) with a gun and Chick-Fil-A sandwiches to stuff into the mouths of his victims at the height of the whole controversy last year. A lobby security guard took him down, and he's in jail now.

Demosthenes wrote:
MacBrave wrote:
Seth wrote:

Christians always have and always will feel persecuted by someone or something.

Funny that I've never felt that way. I guess I'm not Christian enough.

Apparently not. The local church near my house (complete with a million little crosses for fetuses like every season) mixed that message with a new one of "Protect Religious Freedom" as if that was somehow under threat because we weren't living all living as Christians with Bible Law as the law of the land... something that I was seeing more and more of since the last election cycle really ramped up... and hasn't really petered out yet.

You should do what my friend in college did: go to a dry cleaner and buy a million wire hangers off him/her and wire tie them to each of the crosses.

Best troll ever.

Paleocon wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:
MacBrave wrote:
Seth wrote:

Christians always have and always will feel persecuted by someone or something.

Funny that I've never felt that way. I guess I'm not Christian enough.

Apparently not. The local church near my house (complete with a million little crosses for fetuses like every season) mixed that message with a new one of "Protect Religious Freedom" as if that was somehow under threat because we weren't living all living as Christians with Bible Law as the law of the land... something that I was seeing more and more of since the last election cycle really ramped up... and hasn't really petered out yet.

You should do what my friend in college did: go to a dry cleaner and buy a million wire hangers off him/her and wire tie them to each of the crosses.

Best troll ever.

...I don't always agree with you Paleo... but that is the best idea ever.

Demosthenes wrote:
MacBrave wrote:
Seth wrote:

Christians always have and always will feel persecuted by someone or something.

Funny that I've never felt that way. I guess I'm not Christian enough.

Apparently not. The local church near my house (complete with a million little crosses for fetuses like every season) mixed that message with a new one of "Protect Religious Freedom" as if that was somehow under threat because we weren't living all living as Christians with Bible Law as the law of the land... something that I was seeing more and more of since the last election cycle really ramped up... and hasn't really petered out yet.

Every move in one direction must overcome resistance in the other. I like seeing the rhetoric. That's a sign of movement in the opposite direction.

krev82 wrote:

Then yesterday - North Carolina Lawmaker Equates Islamic Prayer With Terrorism . Just.. wow.

When asked if she would be comfortable with a prayer to Allah, Presnell stated, "No, I do not condone terrorism...We just need to start taking a stand on our religious freedom or it will be whisked away from us".

Emphasis mine. There's just...so much wrong with this statement. So very much.

Nicholaas wrote:
krev82 wrote:

Then yesterday - North Carolina Lawmaker Equates Islamic Prayer With Terrorism . Just.. wow.

When asked if she would be comfortable with a prayer to Allah, Presnell stated, "No, I do not condone terrorism...We just need to start taking a stand on our religious freedom or it will be whisked away from us".

Emphasis mine. There's just...so much wrong with this statement. So very much.

You just can't fix willful stupidity.

Also doesn't appear to know what Allah means. Wonder if he'd be up for a prayer to Deus or Kami-sama.

Hypatian wrote:

Kami-sama.

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Hypatian wrote:

Deus

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Sorry, I refrained fro posting something snarky the first time, but KingGorilla inspired me.

Those would be words for God in languages other than English. Kind of like Allah.

Hypatian wrote:

Those would be words for God in languages other than English. Kind of like Allah. :)

So you are an educated terrorist? Thats the worst kind.

RolandofGilead wrote:

Sorry ... KingGorilla inspired me.

An oft structured sentence.

Demosthenes wrote:

Oxford, OH tried to do something similar one year. Then all the college students flushed their toilets at midnight, crippling the town's water supply until later in the day.

Sorry, it's a ways back now... but that works?! If so, that's a great form of protest.

Redwing wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:

Oxford, OH tried to do something similar one year. Then all the college students flushed their toilets at midnight, crippling the town's water supply until later in the day.

Sorry, it's a ways back now... but that works?! If so, that's a great form of protest. :D

It did, but that was easily a decade before I was there, I'd imagine after that little stunt, some of the tax money from the area's sales taxes (mostly provided by students!) was put towards updating their water tower.

Should we not weep for the victims who continually are dying in secret on the satanic altars all across America…abducted adults and children who will die in terror and rejection, to never see their families again…and babies deliberately bred to only be sacrificed?

O_o

They even made a hard hitting documentary about it. Absolutely frightening.

Tangle is this like some new competitor to daily currant and the onion?

edit: OH MY. The rabbit hole goes much deeper! The author, Pamela Rae Schuffert, is a pawn of the Illuminati!

OG_slinger wrote:

They even made a hard hitting documentary about it. Absolutely frightening.

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Seth wrote:

edit: OH MY. The rabbit hole goes much deeper! The author, Pamela Rae Schuffert, is a pawn of the Illuminati!

Wow. That's... quite a sphere of crazy they've got going on there.

I report, you decide

I blame Reagan for defunding the mental hospitals.

That website is glorious, the inconsistent font sizes are a real joy.

Plus the advertisements along the side are fantastic!