12-11-2008, 12:17 PM
cuppie Wrote:Am I the only one that finds it ironic that in a thread about how Christians aren't persecuted, there's a ton of Christian bashing? You're disproving everything that article is about by continually bashing Christians.
I don't believe this thread contains any "christian bashing," just a discussion of observations made by others. No one has said Christianity is wrong and its follows are crazy loons, but it seems to me that Christians have been trained to feel persecuted when someone doesn't believe the same thing they do.
Just the other day my girlfriend and I were talking about how she ran into a friend who is very Christian, and how her friend tried to convince her to go to her church, but my girlfriend was too afraid to tell this person, who in her own words "accepts me for who I am", that she no longer believes in religion for fear of being alienated amongst their group of mutual friends. The same reason why she goes along with her family when invited to church for religious holidays, and gets pissed at me when I refuse to go along. BTW - out of our close group of friends, and my family, we are the only non-religious folks in the group, which is used as fodder (by even my mother) to mock us (which I give right back in spades).
Side note: agreeing with speedbump, I hate it when people refer to atheism as a religion, it is a philosophical view.
//jumps off soapbox