More than 160 Christians were killed and 500 wounded in Nigeria on Christmas Day as radical Islamic terrorists struck in several predominantly Christian villages – killing men, women, and children.
More than 160 Christians were killed and 500 wounded in Nigeria on Christmas Day as radical Islamic terrorists struck in several predominantly Christian villages – killing men, women, and children.
The separation is a misnomer to a degree. The founding fathers didn’t advocate for it and we had state religions in the beginning. The concept of separation is a much more recent court ruling which was more recently gutted. Yes I think when they want to put up a Christmas display they are being bigots and attention whores. Trying to ruin one religions holiday is exactly the insecure behavior I’ve been talking about. Pick their holiday and put up a display. I have no issue with that but trying to ruin another religions holiday is just stupid. It isn’t hypocrisy to want to keep your holiday special. I don’t really celebrate Christmas but I wouldn’t want to ruin it for those who do.
There’s a particular rhetorical strategy I’m increasingly learning to identify with your help. It’s called minimization.
I’ve identified a pattern of Christian exceptionalism and clearly juxtaposed it against the attention-whoring, as you call it, of the Satanic Temple.
You implicitly disagree by maintaining it’s not Christian exceptionalism (after all, you’re an atheist), they’re just trying to celebrate a holiday. You ignore the activity of zealous Christians altogether. They’re faultless not because they’re not trying to make Christianity the state religion, nor because they and they alone can discriminate against same-sex couples, nor because they want their religious icons in government buildings, nor because they want Bible study after school programs to the exclusion of other religious programs—no, no, it’s because…they’re trying to party. Thus, complex legal strategems that take years to manufacture and construct and represent a danger to American democracy are minimized to a celebration. And the self-described Satanists are the party poopers.
It’s good stuff. I genuinely appreciate your help.
Not really. A nativity scene is not Christian exceptionalism. It’s just part of our culture as a country. We are a nation of Christians.
I have never seen zealots and I grew up in the bible belt.
Any religion can. That is the freedom of religion and association. Most of these cases come from a bigot doing it just to irk the Christian. As I said, I don’t like trollish behavior. If someone said they didn’t want my money, I would gladly go somewhere else.
Like the Supreme Court> having Mo and the 10 commandments? Not sure what you mean by their religious icons in government buildings. I have never heard of that.
What other religion was denied? Were the Jews, Muslims or Hindus denied?
The trolls will always lose in my book. The premise of just trying to destroy something is not a world I want to live in. Notice they admit they only it in areas where they can get attention.
As I said before, just because I don’t believe doesn’t mean I want to shit on those who do. Religious groups have done a lot of good in the world. Here they feed the homeless, they have shelters for the homeless, addiction help, etc.
The church of satan does none of that unless they are getting attention. Who would you rather have as your neighbor? The person who feeds the poor or the person who wants to stop that person?