I am SOOOO angry at this! Several times this year churches have been vadalized for the sole reason that they are Christian churches. That is HATEFUL religious discrimination. Yet, it is NEVER considered a hate crime in the courts... this just happened to my church. All over the world Christians are being persecuted and MURDERED for their faith. North Korea is the worst for it. Here in America we condone such actions by not punishing those responsible for hurting others for the exact SAME reasons. By allowing these disgusting vandals to get away with nothing but a slap on the wrist, we're telling them it's OKay as long as you don't get caught. Yet for some odd reason, this isn't considered hateful. WHY NOT???!!!!!
2007-02-01 05:33:21 · 12 answers · asked by Lindz 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This just demonstrates the idiocy of hate crime legislation. Let's face it, just about every crime, and certainly every crime in which physical damage is done to person or property is motivated by hate. Singling out special groups as having a status of being eligible to be a victim of a 'hate' crime only intensifies any underlying societal hatred towards that group. An example of another liberal idea gone bad.
2007-02-01 06:27:46 · answer #1 · answered by Black Fedora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am so tired of the poor oppressed Christian whining. You aren't a persecuted minority. You are the majority. You are the ones who DO the persecuting. I actually think the entire concept of hate crimes is absurd. Throwing a rock through a window is throwing a rock through a window. Having a crime based solely on motive strikes me as dangerous.
I have a question for you.....
A Jewish youth center...in a Germanic culture neighborhood (called Rockledge PA) was vandalized. Several times. There were several attempts at arson. No one was ever caught. The youth center was eventually forced out of the neighborhood. A Church now stands there. It has never been vandalized.
This is a true story.
Do I have a right to resent that Church?
2007-02-01 05:42:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In addition to the other posters: The Old Testament, The Septuagint [translated from Hebrew to Greek somewhere 250 BC] was in placed at that time, used even before Jesus' time. The New Testament was written 35-100 AD and translated to latin by St Jerome, sometimes 400 AD. It is still on parchments and read in the church, or preached orally. So, there IS NO NEW TESTAMENTS IN A BOOK/BIBLE FORM AT THAT TIME compiled with Septuagint.' Bible alone' theory is not in existence at that time as there is NO BOOK to call bible. It was the use of Oral Tradition up until 1400 when the 'compiled book form bible' finally hit the printing press. In other words, it took the Catholic Church about 400 years of gathering, editing, and sorting the ancient manuscripts and got printed in 1400. There were also a lot of uninspired writings [apocryphal books] that were floating around that were not cannonized.
2016-05-24 02:20:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In America, a lot of the vandalism of Christian churches (at least according to the reports I've read) is committed by drunk kids who are feeling rebellious and have access to spray paint and crowbars. This is why the penalties are often so light: the perpetrators are underage. It's not indicative of any grand conspiracy against the Christian religion.
As for the rest of the world, it saddens me when anyone is assaulted or murdered because of their religious beliefs. People of many different faiths face this.
2007-02-01 05:40:27 · answer #4 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it is considered a hate crime if a Christian church is vandalized to intimidate the community. For example, the 50s/60s/70s burning of black churches.
2007-02-01 05:37:03 · answer #5 · answered by WWTSD? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A hate crime is more than just for dislike of a cultural or ethnic or religious characteristic. Attacking your church just because it's a Christian church and you don't like Christians is not a hate crime, but attacking your Christian church in an attempt to squelch your religion on a broader scale is. Generally, there has to be some intent to instill fear involved.
2007-02-01 05:41:28 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Apostle Paul said to consider it joy when you are persecuted. You are getting the same thing that our Lord received from the people around Him. I know a pastor in Nigeria that doesn't even know his brothers and sisters because they are Muslims and considered him dead when he asked Jesus into his heart. It won't change....Christians will be persecuted until the day we come back with Him in the clouds and every knee will bow and every tongue confesses that Jesus is Lord.
2007-02-01 06:00:54 · answer #7 · answered by Jan P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be considered a hate crime under the law. If the evidence supports it, but it was not prosecuted as such, I'm not sure why that would be, and you do have a valid complaint on your hands.
Does the evidence support it?
2007-02-01 05:40:29 · answer #8 · answered by milomax 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wait....what does goofy teenagers going through a church with a spray can when you are the majority have to do with the murder of Christians where you are a hated minority?
2007-02-01 05:47:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Persecuted majority again, eh?
2007-02-01 05:40:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋