Entry: What about the Christians? Sunday, March 14, 2004



I got the most interesting email the other day from an old friend. At first, I was all for it, it seemed completely true. I couldn't wait to send it to other people, and see if they agreed. Here's part of it (the whole thing is too long to put here, but I'll send it to you if you want):

Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray before we go to sleep. Our Bible tells us just to pray without ceasing. Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying.

God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well, just sue me. The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we let that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard, that the vast majority don't care what they want. It is time the majority rules. It's time we tell them, you don't have to pray, you don't have to say the Pledge of Allegiance, you don't have to believe in God or attend services that honour Him. That is your right, and we will honour your right, but by golly you are no longer going to take our rights away. We are fighting back.

I read it again. All of a sudden I thought, wtf? This entire email is talking about how atheists and non-Christians are taking away the rights of the so-called "silent majority." Faugh!

We aren't Jerusalem, Baghdad, or China. The fact is that we are North America, the United States and Canada, and as long as we say that we are free countries, we cannot force people to do things or not do things just because of our beliefs. It is extremely hypocritical to demand that Christians be allowed to pray at football games, yet not allow gay marriages, US citizen who wrote the forward. At least Canada is catching on here. You don't have to participate in the marriage. You can call your lawyer all you want. But to say that, just because it's different, it's wrong, and to force others to live by your warped definition of 'right' is wrong in itself. One of the cornerstones of the Christian faith is that men have free will, free will that they were given by God during premortal life, and that no one has the right to take it away.

You say you want to pray at games? Pray away. But don't do the same wrong to others that has been done to you.

   1 comments

Brother Bear
March 16, 2004   05:15 PM PST
 
That's a good point about the Christians.. but they are the Public Majority. Well, in the USA anyway. I don't think it's necessarily a good thing that we're moving away from Christian values, but I don't think it's a terrible thing either. People just need to be more open-minded about things (says the homophobe). Sorry but that's just not natural.

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