Reply #54: I'm not really saying there is myself

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but that I do understand what the OP is getting at.

I'm a christian myself and have just learned to live with the posts here about me.

To wit: Everytime a christian does something wrong it becomes newsworthy here it seems. It is not that some person did something wrong, that qualifier has to be used if it has anything even remotely to do with the story - as if my beliefs were a sickness and I am just a few days short of going insane like all the other millions of christians in the world.

Jews, muslims, buddhists, etc rarely get covered.

Fox news covers white blonde women, du covers white male christians.

Post a thread about some christian goof ball and you might have a good thread popping for awhile. Toss out some news from somewhere like govexec on legislation coming up, govt mismanagement, etc and your lucky if gets one person interested in it.

Americans like their stories about the girl next door, and when she goes missing they eat it up. And of course we do as well on here by posting thread after thread bitching about it, poking fun of it, etc. I'd swear the people who decide what news to cover on fox must post here as well at times :)

Now ALL that said: I really do understand it. We see fundies as a threat via the govt and such, a few see muslims that way as well, you can't see jews that way cause it's anti-semitic (ie, point out rove is a christian and it is relevant, point out he is a jew you are a bigot...go figure...).

Hell I post such threads myself weekly :) The whole thing I was getting across is it is easy to see how people can get a little upset when a group they belong to is called out often (I posted a thread once about an atheist who removed a roadside cross, some of them were up in arms because it singled out his atheism - I didn't write the title or the story, but some pondered why I would post something like that. I dunno, it was top story on a news page - and newspapers know their stuff I guess cause it was alive and kicking here for days).

Maybe them blond white girls don't like hearing their demise or kidnapping is not worthwhile news. But then, what is worthwhile anymore?

PS:
Just saw this thread in GD as I was typing this:

and now....JESUS CAMP.
This is not the same Christianity that past generations have followed. Make no mistake, these people are on a single, focused mission: the eradication of the voices of all those who do not share their views. These christians are the type of people that Jesus warned you about.

:) Too bad, someone beat me to posting it.....