How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?
“How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?”
That was the deeply dismaying question posed to me by a friend with four young children as we discussed the plight of the Christian faith in America and around the world.
With each passing month, that shocking question becomes more relevant and even more disturbing.
To say that Christians and Christianity are under a withering and brutal attack in certain areas of the world would be an understatement.
In various parts of the Middle East, there is a genocidal cleansing of Christians being carried out. Women, men, and their young children are being slaughtered because of their faith and world leaders and most of the media turn their backs in bored indifference.
Here in the United States, Christians and Christianity are mocked, belittled, smeared and attacked by some on a daily basis. This is a bigoted practice that is not only increasing exponentially, but is being encouraged and sanctioned by a number on the left.
Too many of those who worship at the altar of political correctness have deemed that Christianity should no longer be respected. Rather, they assail it on a regular basis in a coordinated campaign to weaken the faith and its base.
The prevailing view in much of the media is that Christianity is aligned with Republicans, conservatives, or the views of President Trump – and therefore must be diminished and made suspect.
The New Yorker just described the opening of a few Chick-fil-A restaurants in New York City as “Pervasive Christian traditionalism,” and a “Creepy infiltration of New York City.”
Christianity is an “infiltration” to some on the left.
In college, they now teach about the evils of “Christian Privilege.” On Broadway and in theaters around the world, mocking Christians has become a massively profitable money-making venture.
In name, on the crucifix, and in art, Jesus Christ is desecrated in the most twisted and obscene of ways. In movies, on television and online, Christians are portrayed in the most dishonest, prejudiced and insulting of ways.
Across the country, Christian colleges are under constant assault from “social justice warriors” seeking to strip their accreditation and put them out of business.
Christian groups on campus are at times being persecuted, their offices and handouts vandalized, with members even being physically assaulted.
In a nation that is still majority Christian, those who follow the faith have been litigated or brow-beaten into being fearful to utter the words “Merry Christmas,” or to display a Nativity scene celebrating the one and only reason there is a Christmas Day.
Want to stay true to your Christian faith in the most innocuous and giving of ways?
To do so is becoming more perilous by the minute, when you stop to ponder just a sampling of the negative consequences. For example:
A high school football coach is fired for taking a knee in prayer. A teacher is fired for giving a Bible to a student who requested it. A Marine is cursed at and then court-martialed for not removing a Bible verse from her computer. Another Bible verse posted by sailors in a military hospital is labeled “extremism.”
For me personally, I continue to be ridiculed for writing and speaking about a vision I had regarding the 40 days after the resurrection.
If you are a practicing Christian in the United States and open about it, you, your congregation and your organization will become a target of some sort. It is only a matter of time.
Ironically, in some very real and ominous ways, it’s as if we are being transported back to ancient Rome.
Will we soon have to meet with fellow Christians in secret? Will we have to whisper our beliefs from the shadows? Will those Christians with “traditional” beliefs lose their jobs and livelihoods if discovered?
As more and more of the mainstream media, entertainment, academia and the hi-tech world continue to purge or discriminate against Christians, what future job fields will be open to young Christians?
Will those Christian children eventually be forced to renounce or deny their faith in order to get a job and provide for their families?
As a Christian, I truly do have the deepest respect for every faith. The vast majority of people of every faith are beyond good and do seek to follow the golden rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Why do so many on the left, in the media, entertainment and academia not practice that most simple, loving and humane of rules when it comes to the Christian faith? http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/04/21/how-long-will-be-allowed-to-remain-christian.html
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Calbab seeded the same article a while ago.
More tripe from the lunatic fringe far right......When have you ever been discriminated in while living in the USA. When have you felt the hatred that Muslims feel for practicing their religion? When have you had to deal with the palpable anti-Semitism that plagued this nation since the 1850s? When were you enslaved and lynched like our Black brothers and sisters throughout their history in this nation? When were you threatened to be kept out of this country because your skin was brown?
You have been the oppressors not the oppressed. You resent your privilege being taken away. This is a nation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Native Americans, Wiccans, non-believers, and many other faith communities. All that has happened is that you have been told that you have to follow the same rules as everyone else. All you have been told is that some people don't celebrate your Christmas and would appreciate a different greeting. Nobody is telling you that you can't practice your religion or say what you want. Just give the rest of the country the same respect.
VERY well said indeed!
The Christian Right is it's own worst enemy and is doing a laudable job of destroying the entire religion.
Decades ago my grandmother and I used to discuss this very phenomenon when it was in its infancy. When the ersatz evangelicals moved the message of Christ toward one of small mindedness, meanness and overt capitalism young folks began staying away in droves. It seems to be a continuing process. Pretty soon only the assbags will be left in the religion.
This business of believing that disagreement with your political point of view and being the butt of jokes as oppression is downright snowflaky.
Try these folks out for size. Apparently they take the words of Christ seriously.
“How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian?”
Is this a serious question or click bait for people to read this opinion? An individual seriously posing the question should probably examine their faith system!
IMO, what this seeder fails to understand is that the First Amendment doesn't give special rights to Christians or, to any religion, it just says that the government thinks that all religions should have equal time, Christians think they should be special, well, because.
It is purely click bait, but I didn't bother to read a single sentence of the seed. The question posed in the title is bullshit to begin with, thus everything else that follows is complete bullshit. GIGO if you will.
As long as you decide to be? What kind of stupid fucking question is that?
Antsy McClain was subjected to discrimination: