Why is anti-Christian bigotry socially acceptable?

Question

Worldwide, more Christians are persecuted than any other group.

Most folks know that bigotry is wrong, or at least know that it's not socially acceptable. To take the worst aspects of some members of a community and tar all members with a stereotype, to deliberately post the most insulting and ridiculing material possible, or to be so proud of one's prejudices. Look at racial prejudice, for example.

Yet some of you seem to revel in your anti-Christian bigotry.

I tried to reason with people, but then I realized I was wasting my time and making a fool of myself. I don't argue with KKK types, spouting anti-black stereotypes; I just realize that these people are tainted and corrupted by hate and too far gone. I'll try to remember that, and feel the same pity for Christian-haters as for the others.

Any comments? Both KKKers and Christian-bashers feel free to spout. Hey, criticize Martin Luther King - kill two birds with one stone!

Without your hate you're nothing.

I agree - people who call out hatred and confront it are often "asking for a lot of trouble."

Letting it fester is worse.

PS I stand by my statement about the number of Christians being persecuted.

And about people being proud of their hate.

Thanks especially to those with kind responses.

For those others, it seems there's some distinction being drawn between "mere insults" and "acts of persecution." I dunno - I find using the N-word (I won't even print it) or bashing "f*gs"to be very offensive, although it's "just words." I never considered those complaining about it to be whiners.

And if people are truly concerned about extremists who have hijacked religion to justify violence and oppression NOW, as we speak, I would not focus on Christianity.

But that's just me.

But I appreciate ALL responses. Civil debate is good.

Answer 1

It is very sad. I should know. I am a Christian and we live in an era where it is not okay to say anything bad about people of other faiths but it is considered tolerable to be anti-Christian. Being anti-Christian is just as bigoted as bashing other faiths. The reasons why anti-Christian bigotry is so accepted are
1) It says somewhere in the Bible that people will hate Christians because they hate Jesus(Jesus said that).
2) Christianity has often been seen by some liberals as part of the "establishment" and some of that "anti-establishment" sentiment has caused hatred of Christianity. Some people claim that Christianity is bigoted. I am a Christian. The faith is not the problem. People are, and Christianity is not a product of the "establishment". It has been around long before the USA has been around.

Answer 2

There's a difference between being persecuted and being criticized & ridiculed. Has anyone taken away your right to marriage or forced you to get an abortion? Has anyone forced you to say a prayer to a different god in your public school? Has anyone raided the public school funds so that they can get vouchers for an Islamic madras school? Has anyone celebrated war in the Middle East 'cause they thought it meant that Krishna or Moses or Muhammed were coming back?

Christian "persecution" is a joke. You're not being persecuted, not in the least. When you get kicked out of your home and sent to a refugee camp then you can complain. Sorry, fantasizing about being persecuted for Christ's sake doesn't make it actually so. You're just being criticized for being a group of obnoxious assholes & mindless sheep, nothing more. Get a grip you big f--kin' baby.

Answer 3

More christians are persecuted than any other group... right. Stereotyping individuals based on their race/religion is wrong, I agree, but please don't play the victim here.

Have you ever heard of someone being rejected a job because they're christian? Or beaten up because they're christian? Been searched by police and held without bail for being christian? Denied the right to vote for being christian? Marched off to concentration camps for being christian? Forced to drink out of a different water fountain or use a different bathroom for being christian?

Christians count more members in their faith than any religion in the world, so please don't come spouting this garbage about how they're more persecuted than jews, blacks, arabs, gays, or anyone else.

Addendum: I'm not certain what you're trying to say about the KKK, you do know that they believe america was founded as a "white christian nation", right? It's on the FAQ on their homepage.

Answer 4

Oh Puleeze.
Climb down off your cross, someone else needs the wood.
Many Christians are their own worst enemy. The will allow others to go out and preach hate without saying a word and then wonder why they all end up being put in the same boat.
In the end people do not remember the words of your enemy, they remember the silence of your friends.

Answer 5

I personally am not a christian hater, but for the life of me I can't understand how anyone especially black folks fall for that crap, I'm not speaking from a lifetime on the outside, quite the contrary. I was raised in a very religious home, Sunday school and church every Sunday, as most of my family still does. I on the other hand have never heard anything in all my years as a member of the flock that had the slightest ring of truth to it and I listened to them all from Catholic to Baptist and it all sounds as far fetched as Voodoo. MLK was a good man but unlike most God Fearing black folks even he knew that you couldn't sit back and wait for "GOD" to do it.

When people decide to express their beliefs on public forums expect to hear the pros and cons otherwise keep it in church.

Answer 6

"That is why, since we have this ministry according to the mercy that was shown us, we do not give up; but we have renounced the underhanded things of which to be ashamed, not walking with cunning, neither adulterating the word of God, but by making the truth manifest recommending ourselves to every human conscience in the sight of God. If, now, the good news we declare is in fact veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through."
Jesus told his followers "Bear in mind the word I said to you, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my word, they will observe yours also. But they will do all these things against you on accoujnt of my name, because they do not know him that sent me."

Answer 7

It's not, and they can't be practicing Christians by doing it either. Jesus said they like the sounds of their own prayers (The Pharisees)

Answer 8

Though I am Christian, and mostly agree with what you said, are you not asking for a lot of trouble with this question?