Friday, December 10, 2010

Are Christians the New Persecuted?

Nope, at least not here in the West. Christians in the West are just beginning to realize that as the world becomes more globally interconnected the walls which used to keep The Others out are dissolving. They are our neighbors, co-workers, friends, and relatives. We have to share this planet and tribalism no longer works.



"Christians are entitled to hold their cherished beliefs, but they are not entitled to impose those beliefs on the rest of us and certainly not entitled to seek to make their beliefs the law of the land!"

Actually you can replace Christian from the quote and insert any religious identity and the quote will still work. For example:

"Muslims are entitled to hold their cherished beliefs, but they are not entitled to impose those beliefs on the rest of us and certainly not entitled to seek to make their beliefs the law of the land!"

 Sound familiar? (Here's a hint.) Moving more towards a secular society doesn't mean that the citizens will lack values and morals, but it allows room for a multi-cultural society to prosper. We are rapidly becoming more and more interconnected with our global neighbors. If Facebook were a country it would be the 3rd largest country in the world. Facebook! We don't live in comfy little bubbles of ignorance anymore which means if we want to live peacefully with our neighbors we've got to interact with them. Or we could go round and round making ignorant statements about each other stating how persecuted we've become. Christians in the West are far from being persecuted. (Squabbles over billboards and textbooks don't count as persecution. Sorry.)

5 comments:

Don said...

Nice post Michael.

"____________are entitled to hold their cherished beliefs, but they are not entitled to impose those beliefs on the rest of us and certainly not entitled to seek to make their beliefs the law of the land!"

I plan on using that quote soon.

Don said...

Wow Sam! Don't know if you caught the brouhaha on Facebook that I seem to have started between to of my own over the simple statement you made in this post. I added an "update" on my blog after asking folks to "fill-in-blank". It just goes to show how far apart, we who still believe in a deity are from conservative Christians. It never hurts so much as when the negative reaction comes from your own family. FYI-please don'tfeel in any way,at fault. There is none. It is what it is. I knew that when I began this journey.

Don said...

I just realized I called you "Michael" in my first comment. A senior moment. I apologize!

Eruesso said...

I caught parts of it but couldn't find the FB posting when I checked today. Did you have to delete it? No hard feelings on this end. Just wish I could have joined in on the conversations.

Don said...

For the sake of the family, I deleted it.

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