Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumDana Loesch leads religion pity party at CPAC: ‘It’s time to make Christians a protected class’
I feel like its time to make Christians a protected class, Dana Loesch said, as the discussion reached a fevered pitch of self-pity.
Thomas chimed in that our commander in chief who is Jesus, not President Obama instructed his followers that they would experience persecution.
Then Thomas and Loesch admitted that it just wouldnt be worth being a Christian if you couldnt feel persecuted.
And since we have the victim competition in the United States, Loesch added, I think we win.
Here, watch them climb up on those crosses for yourself
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/dana-loesch-leads-religion-pity-party-at-cpac-its-time-to-make-christians-a-protected-class/comments/#disqus
And some of our friends on DU think there's absolutely nothing to worry about nor anyreason to be such nasty nasty atheists, challenging religious thinking. Some seem to think religions in the USA are becoming more "liberal".
deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)Yep, let's legislate religious privilege! Put it on the books! Wouldn't our intellectually dishonest apologist friends have a field day with that?
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Here we are giving them what they say they most want, a free ticket to heaven, and the ingrates whine like a three year old overdue for his nap.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)It is so much better to be a Christian when you are being persecuted than when you are the persecutors. They have no idea what persecution is, and I have my doubts that they could stand up to true persecution. How many of them would be willing to stand there and be stoned or beheaded just for their beliefs?
DavidDvorkin
(19,840 posts)The wall and the guards along it were a privilege granted to them by a sympathetic ruler. It didn't take long before the ghetto evolved into a prison.
A.k.a., be careful what you wish for.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)I never knew this.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)survive in an evolved world. Religions are running their course (mainly into the shoals and reefs) because they no longer apply in a modern world. The inter tubes provide information and data. That are the two worst possible things you can do to any religion. Removing blind faith, willful ignorance, and deliberate stupidity with facts causes every religion to suffer badly. As they should.
mountain grammy
(27,152 posts)The death throes are taking forever.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)For my money, they never applied.
Once upon a time, we knew less than we do now and therefore religious notions were easier to sell.
But they've always been wrong.
So I don't see how they ever applied to anything (except crowd control).
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)except, perhaps, hatred. (See generally, today's GOP and its reaction to a black president, who happens to be far smarter and harder working than they.)
mr blur
(7,753 posts)Seems to me that Christians have a pretty privileged ride already over there.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Good Mockers are still ok. See The Rulez.
Oh wait, I thought your were talking about DU. Nevermind.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)I'll just have to go, freely and unobstructed, to one the gazillions of churches everywhere in this country (there are 3 just in my view from the window) and pray the persecution stops.
Or maybe I could blare a prayer from one of the all Christian radio or TV stations available everywhere in these here United States.
I know, I'll make some signs....I'm off to Hobby Lobby right after I grab a quick bite at Chic-fil-ay.
These poor poor Christians just can't get a break.... except a tax break!
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)There were 17 at one time, but they are going broke, a bit at a time.
A few years before I moved here, a bankrupt church was asked to sell its property to a mosque. The City Council objected, and the litigation became national news. They got spanked bad.
I'd prefer to turn them into bars or art museums, but there still is a strong religiosity here in southern cook county, Illinois.
JDDavis
(725 posts)It was a great smoked ribs restaurant, called "Holy Smokes"
Some people thought it was disrespectful of religion to use the word "holy" in the name.
A couple years later, it burned down.
Coincidence?
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)The lunatics do come out with a fool moon, and the voices they hear in their heads told them that the ribs were an affront to their fairy tale sky-god.
enki23
(7,793 posts)JDDavis
(725 posts)which protected the civil rights of their "class" specifically because of their religion.
progressoid
(50,638 posts)After watching a couple more of her videos, I will strive to avoid listening to her again.
I think the word I'm looking for is 'insufferable'.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I almost lost my breakfast listening to her. It was a good breakfast, too. Cheese omelet and fresh fruit.
Moostache
(10,115 posts)That woman is positioned to become Phyllis Schlafly as soon as that other insufferable gas bag stops wasting our oxygen and water to sustain the husk of a human being that resides within her.
The world is impoverished by the presence of people like Loesch.
libodem
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