Post your FB pics, I don't think you can find any without googling them. "Under god" is already in the pledge of allegiance so they could only be responding to people who want it out. That's a two way street.
If you want something that demonstrates where the preponderance of the bile comes from, find any story about a Muslim or Black person, where the "verdict" is up in the air. Or even where it isn't. Look up any news story on a news site on local opposition to building a mosque... then look at the comments.
The more populist the site, the more hateful comments you'll find.
Especially any story about a Black man who's committed a crime - it'll all be familiar to you if you've read PatsFans for any length of time. Maybe a couple of "bad words" you don't see here (oh the horrors of "political correctness.") But it's an instructive exercise.
I don't believe you. You can always find random anonymous comments that say anything to "shock." But on FB people are much more careful because they have their name attached. You can watch Comedy Central or I even listed a big budget movie and a broadway play. Even in this thread somebody called Christians hypocritical. Criticism for Christians is mainstream and accepted. Frankly, that's fine because criticism is part of a free society but anyone can plainly see they are more targeted than other groups who do far less charity or are far more dangerous.
Aha, we must narrow our view to the "self-policed" Facebook posts (because names are attached.) As the Mrs. points out, the self-policing is confined to one's group of friends. I think it's possible that this goes as much by what one is afraid will show up to employers as how "cool" one's friends are. I.e., if friends are actively in their worklives, that might control bile more than one's political bent. Mid-career versus high-school/college kids (and in the case of the Mrs.' anti-semitic friends, retirees.)
Don't remember what this is in reference to.
So some random black criminal means they are saying blacks are evil? Absurd. Guess Hollywood can't have any black criminals. Can they have white ones? Or probably no races. Blacks aren't criminals in movies any more than real life, if anything it's less. I gave you an example where Christians are trying to take over the world as a collective group in a movie. Just look at Tebow, how much hate did he get. For what? Is he a criminal? Does he hurt people?
Tebow is a bad football player. He also acts entitled about playing the QB position, when he's marginal to make a roster at all. When he was with the Pats for 15 minutes, despite his obnoxious and very public agenda, I was all for BB and company finding something that they could make work. I doubted it, but if it happened, I was fine with it.
I think anti-Tebowism had to do with his using a very shaky platform (based on his "abilities" and visibility) to push things like his anti-choice agenda, not what he personally believed in his heart. Furthermore, pointing to heaven when you do something good in football is a well-worn meme, and "Tebowing" is pretty much the same thing (but more visible; it takes much more time and is much more dramatic.) My problem with Tebowism is that he never had the chops to back it up, and he emphasized his proselytizing instinct, basing it on a foundation that didn't exist. "I give the glory of my great athletic career to God" is so much more appropriate when you have a great athletic career.
No, I'm not but I can see what's in front of my face. And I can see that the people in this world who we need to worry about aren't Christians.
Similarly, the topic of the OP is that the persecution one has to worry about in America isn't against Christians. Can you see what's in front of your face on that score as well? Or is it just not in front of
your face?
It looks to me like the Christians run a hell of a lot of charities and hospitals (and Mormons too) and their critics usually have nothing but hateful words. It's "hip" or whatever to pick on them and not other groups. It is what it is, I'm just saying lots of people see the hypocrisy.
This was on my FB today.
The photo you posted is a critique not of Christianity but of the misuse of funds for religious displays rather than according to the heart of Christian and other religions, that is attending to the less fortunate. It could easily have been posted by a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, or atheist.
Perhaps not the atheist, since it posits a proper use of funding to please God.
PFnV
