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Friday, March 02, 2007
John Hawkins :: Townhall.com Columnist
Liberal Contempt for Christians
by John Hawkins
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Here's a personal favorite, an eye catching post-election 2004 rant from Ken Layne, who's now at the popular liberal blog Wonkette,

"Rove's re-election strategy was elegantly simple: Scare the bejesus out of Jesusland. F@ggots are headed your way! Satanic Muslims are hiding everywhere! That's all it took to get Jesusland to do the job. Intellectual conservatives like the National Review staff are flattering themselves if they honestly believe Jesusland cares about conservative thought. The "reality-based" folks are learning that Jesusland doesn't even care about jobs or the economy. In Jesusland, it's all the will of Jesus. No job? No money? Daughter got her cl*t pierced? Jesus is just f*cking with you again, testing your faith. Got the cancer? Oh well. Soon you'll be with Jesus. Reality is no match for a mystical world in which an all-powerful god is constantly toying with every detail of your mundane life, just to see what you'll do about it. Keep praying and always keep your eye out for homosexuals and terrorists, and you will eventually be rewarded ... all you have to do is die, and then it's SuperJesusLand, where you will be a ghost floating in a magic cloud with all the other ghosts from Jesusland, with Jesus Himself presiding over an Eternal Church Service."

Moving on, there's James Cameron's latest documentary/blasphemy, "The Lost Tomb of Christ," which claims that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children, based on some coffins that were found that may have had their names on them. Even though that's a thin reed to hang a documentary on, notice that I said "may." Biblical scholar Steven Pfann says that the name on the key coffin looks to be Hanun, not Jesus. But Hanun, Jesus, whatever, as long as there is an attack on Christians involved, liberals don't care much about the particulars. That's why Hollywood habitually treats Christians with such disdain on the silver screen and why liberals will tell you that dropping a crucifix in urine or smearing the Virgin Mary with feces is the sort of "art" we should be funding with our tax dollars.

Now usually, when you accurately explain to people what many liberals believe and use their own quotes to prove it, liberals come out of the woodwork to call it a "smear campaign" or claim that you're "cherry picking" their comments. But, what I'm saying here has been said by other liberals, even if they tend to gloss over the magnitude of the problem. Take, for example, these comments from Barack Obama just last year,

"At worst, there are some liberals who dismiss religion in the public square as inherently irrational or intolerant, insisting on a caricature of religious Americans that paints them as fanatical, or thinking that the very word "Christian" describes one's political opponents, not people of faith."

If Barack had replaced, "some liberals" with "most liberals," he would have been spot-on.

This would be a better country if liberals like Barack Obama would regularly stand up and say, "This is not acceptable," when their fellow travelers on the left attack Christians instead of tossing out a line in a speech every now and again. It might not stop liberals from being inherently hostile to people of faith, but it might encourage them to think about their anti-Christian bigotry, instead of blindly following the crowd on the left.

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Joe23649
-religion in the public schools and elsewhere-
It has to be either all religions, equally, or none. Since there are >30,000 sects of christianity alone in the US, the answer is none.

-anti-faith bigotry incarnate-
Kind of like the anti-nonchristian bigotry I've seen on TH.com?

Joe, let me remind you that there was a story here called "stupid atheists." Find me a "stupid christian" story in the national media and then you can cry, boo hoo, about christian bigotry.

Anti-religious bigotry
It's impossible to get a liberal to admit his anti-religious bigotry. To him, anti-religious bigotry doesn't exist. It CAN'T exist.
The only bigots are Christians, and only they can be bigots.

Even though entire liberal institutions are dedicated to the purging of religion in the public schools and elsewhere, anti-religious bigotry doesn't exist.

Even though whole websites (especially by some atheists) are nothing but anti-faith bigotry incarnate, anti-religious bigotry doesn't exist.

Even though bigots such as Bill Maher spew their anti-faith hatred on TV on a regular basis, anti-faith bigotry doesn't exist.

Even though bloggers routinely make fun of Southern Baptists as being fat, anti-faith bigotry doesn't exist. (Imagine a white person writing about an NAACP convention and remarking that the attendees have big lips.)

Get caught saying ANYTHING about a black person, even if it is positive, and get accused of bigotry. (Unless you are black.)

Slander, libel, lie about Christians. It doens't matter. Because it's, well... Christians, and anti-religious bigotry doesn't exist!

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