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what you’re going to have to deal with. Kinda like the fact that Lou CAN HIT. We’re not a Muslim nation or a Catholic nation. Or a scientologist nation…although any religion started as a bet between science fiction writers can’t be all bad.

In the end, I guess you are just going to have to keep coming here and making an ass out of yourself everytime someone brings up Christianity.

God Bless.

Unless you’re mostly watching a station like Fox News, which is actually going to cover people bashing Christianity and paint them in a negative light, I really don’t think that most media jump to Christians’ defense.

And I think a distinction needs to be made between Christians “disparaging” other religions and people versus Christians stating their beliefs about other religions and people’s behavior. On the one hand, take groups like the extreme anti-gays that show up to protest at funerals and say that every natural disaster is God’s judgement upon our growing acceptance of homosexuality. They are condemned and criticized by pretty much everyone, most Christians included, as they should be. But that’s a lot different from, say, a Christian saying that he has nothing against homosexual people, but believes homosexual acts are wrong. Or, to take an actual example, Carrie Prejean’s little incident. She says she has a traditional view of marriage and is roundly attacked by most of the media (Fox being the main exception).

So I really don’t think that Christians get to say whatever they want about anybody else and get away with it. And sure, Fox is going to have coverage of anti-Christian stories more than other networks and is likely to be critical. But I think there’s a much greater tendency on the rest of TV news and most of the major newspapers to take cheap shots at Christians and ignore the faults of other religions. Why do so many media types blast “anti-gay” Christians who want to preserve traditional marriage while ignoring the dozens of nations where homosexuals are killed and the religions which encourage their murder?

So here we are in a nation that allows relegious to a greater extent than anywhere in the world, both now and in the past, a nation that is predominately Christian and founded by people who held a strong belief in a Christian God and you want to get passionately worked up over a few of them that are out towards the end of the spectrum?

Not to tell you what you can be passionate about, but what about passion against those nations, people or cultures that prohibit all religion or only allow the one they think is the right one? If you are passionate about speaking against those who argue against gay marriage in this country, where is the passion and the arguments against countries such as Uganda or Iran or Saudia Arabia that execute people for being gay and solve the whole gay marriage debate that way?

It is a double standard when you want to castigate a group of people over relatively minor issues and stay quiet about much bigger ones. I doubt most people would agree with the statement that Christians can say what they like about other religions and not have anything said about it. Yes, like anybody in this country they can say what they want. But to believe that they regularly do so without criticism is to turn a blind eye on the real world or at least look at it with filters so you don’t see what might disprove your opinions.