Since the persecution of Christians is so terrible on these boards.

[JoeyT]

Is anyone else sorely tempted to post a twenty paragraph disjointed screed about how oppressed white people are just to see how many of our persecuted Christians see the irony? I'm not even white and the temptation is absolutely killing me.

I wouldn't actually post it because it would likely get the person posting it nuked from orbit for being a racist ass, as it should.

Next up: DU and Free Republic compete to see who can have the most persecuted Christian threads active at the same time.

[intaglio]

1. Linky-poos please n/t

[Fumesucker]

2. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002539837

[trotsky]

3. LMAO

Sorry I missed that pity party. OK, not really.

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Well, that certainly was a shitfest!

I have to say that the intolerance of some Christians is, well, un-Christian-like.

[skepticscott]

4. Anyone who uses the word "persecuted"

to describe anything that happens to them on this site should be deeply and profoundly ashamed. In real life, every day, people are driven from their homes, deprived of fundamental rights, raped, tortured and murdered because of who and what they are. That's persecution. Here? People have their precious beliefs called into question or disparaged as silly. They have their feelings hurt. Wow.

A six year old who gets pushed down on the playground has to endure more than any Christian ever has on DU.

[Lucy Goosey]

6. Exactly!

Well said.

[SamG]

8. +1000 n/t

[Curmudgeoness]

9. I like your thinking!

It is a pity that some people will care so much about what other people (who they don't even know) on a "discussion" board say to them.

[skepticscott]

11. And truly bizarre that their deeply held religious faith

would be so threatened by it. I really think that a lot of religious believers out there have no real basis for their "faith" and know deep down that it's a shaky edifice just waiting to collapse.

[AlbertCat]

13. no real basis for their "faith" and know deep down that it's a shaky edifice

BINGO!

Poor put upon Christians! They just can't get a break! There's simply no outlet for their ideas! I can hardly find a church anywhere! Their message is never heard in media! We atheists have practically weeded them out! BWAHAHAHA!










Or not.

Seems to me, if one's faith is so strong, a few quips on the internet would not shake it up so much. But if you know in your core it's all bunk, you have to spend a lot of energy convincing yourself it's real.... unlike atheism. For me, anyway, it takes no effort to not believe in ancient superstitions. If religion wasn't constantly in my face, I'd never think of it at all. (except some mythologies are very cool and interesting. And all those connections to music and art, which I like. If we HAD to have Christianity to get a Bach or an el Greco, then OK. But nowadays.....)

[Rob H.]

5. Wow, the person complaining...

clearly doesn't understand the US Constitution, since he's all revved up about someone posting this:

I believe everyone has a right to believe in anything they want. I also believe people have a right to say they think those beliefs are dangerous, absurd or ridiculous.

What is it about religionists that they don't seem to realize that the same First Amendment that gives them the right to practice their faith in whatever way they choose and believe whatever they want to believe is the same First Amendment that gives other people the right to say they think those beliefs are silly?

[skepticscott]

7. It's truly amazing that people

say that they support free speech, as long as it doesn't offend anyone. They've never stopped to think that the reason for things like the First Amendment is precisely to defend speech that DOES offend people. Speech that doesn't offend anyone hardly needs protection.

[laconicsax]

12. That wouldn't work.

What would work however, is a lengthy, disjointed screed about how men are oppressed. There's even a group to address that "problem."