As Christians around the country are met with violence and marginalization, Dr. Gary Cass, has founded the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) a new organization that aims to counter threats to millions of Christians’ First Amendment rights. While the overwhelming majority of Americans are professed Christians, it has become routine for the media and elites to openly mock and trivialize Christians because they choose to express their faith.
And…
Why do they mock Tebow?
And why do we let them?
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Tim Tebow is mocked not because he is religious, but because he is Christian.
Oh for gods sake.
I’d take a bit of mockery over what passes for Christian love any day. Behold:
Teen atheist abused via social media after prayer banner ruling
Rhode Island: Teen atheist Jessica Ahlquist has faced a blizzard of taunts, abuse, and threats of physical violence after a federal court ruled a controversial Christian prayer banner hanging in her high school auditorium must come down.
It seems that some people just *need* to feel that they are being oppressed. I guess the feeling of being beset gives some people a sense of their importance… if they weren’t right and standing up to evil, then they’d be ignored; if they’re being mocked, then they must clearly be The Righteous. And being Righteous, they can go beyond mockery straight to death threats for anyone who disagrees with them, such as the girl referenced above. I’ve seen this sort of thing first hand; nothing seems to inspire hate quite so much as not having a sufficient level of belief in some god or other.
As for the demand that Christianity be granted the same putative freedom from mockery as all other religions… no. All religions should be subject to constant and unrelenting debate, skepticism and mockery. Any philosophical system that cannot stand up to mockery is a *weak* philosophical system unworthy of much consideration. Children become adults not through coddling and being protected from all the harshness of the world, but through being exposed to all the bad things and being allowed to adapt to it and grow a tough skin. Same goes for philosophies, religious or otherwise.
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The Tebow thing? I’ve not paid much attention to it. But from what I gather, it’s about some millionaire who plays a childish game with other millionaires in front of a bunch of poor people who make bad financial decisions (such as buying very expensive tickets to watch millionaires run around on a field), and when he shoots a hometouchgoal, or whatever the hell it’s called, he puts on some theatrics where he implies that his performance is due to the intervention of some god or other (one apparently so involved in athletics that he doesn’t have a few moments to deal with issues like THIS or THIS). I can’t really say what aspect of this is deserving of special reverence.